Taxation generally provides the largest stream of revenue for any government. Such revenues will be critical to allow the Te’mexw member Nations to provide programs and services to their Citizens. Under modern treaties, each Nation would have the ability to tax the income of businesses and individuals on the Nation’s lands and collect property taxes. We expect that a large proportion of these taxes would go to the Nation to fund the programs and services of their government. Some of the provisions on taxation would be covered in the modern treaty itself, and others would be in side agreements.
Since Canada’s shift in Indigenous Tax Policy in the summer of 2022, tax exemption will continue for Status cardholders on former reserve lands under the Modern Treaty, while section 87 of the Indian Act remains in effect. Read more here: Statement by Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC).