FIRST NATIONS TAX COMMISSION COMMISSION DE LA FISCALITE DES PREM IERES NATIONS
The First Nations Tax Commission, pursuant to the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, hereby approves the following law made by the Skowkale First Nation in the Province of British Columbia,
SKOWKALE FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2024
Dated at Kamloops, British Columbia this 30th day of May, 2024.
On behalf of the First Nations Tax Commission
SKOWKALE FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2024 WHEREAS: A. Pursuant to section 5 of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, the council of a first nation may make laws respecting taxation for local purposes of reserve lands and interests or rights in reserve lands, including laws authorizing the expenditure of local revenues;
B. The Council of the First Nation has made a prope1iy assessment law and a prope1iy taxation law;
C. Subsection 10(2) of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act requires a :first nation that has made a prope1iy taxation law or a law under paragraph 5(1)(a.l) to make, at least once each year, a law establishing a budget for the expenditure of revenues raised under those laws; and
D. The Council of the First Nation wishes to establish an annual budget for the expenditure of revenues raised in the current taxation year, and wishes to authorize expenditures made in accordance with section 13 .1 of the Act;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Skowkale First Nation duly enacts as follows: 1. This Law may be cited as the Skowkale First Nation Annual Expenditure Law, 2024. 2. In this Law: "Act" means the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, S.C. 2005, c. 9, and the regulations made under that Act;
"annual budget" means a budget setting out the projected local revenues and projected expenditures of those local revenues during a budget year, and setting out expenditures made in accordance with section 13 .1 of the Act;
"Assessment Law" means the Skowkale First Nation Property Assessment Law, 2012; "Council" has the meaning given to that term in the Act; "First Nation" means the Skowkale First Nation, being a band named in the schedule to the Act; "Law" means this annual expenditure law enacted under paragraph 5(1 )(b) of the Act as required by subsection 10(2) of the Act;
"local revenues" means money raised by the First Nation under a local revenue law and payments made to a First Nation in lieu of a tax imposed by a law made under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act;
"property taxation law" means a law enacted by the First Nation under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act; and
"Taxation Law" means the Skowkale First Nation Property Taxation Law 2012. 3. The First Nation's annual budget for the budget year beginning April 1, 2024, and ending March 31, 2025, is attached as a Schedule and the expenditures provided for in the Schedule are authorized.
4. Expenditures of local revenues must be made only in accordance with the annual budget or in accordance with section 13 .1 of the Act.
5. The expenditures made in the current year before this Law is enacted are included in the annual budget and are authorized by this Law.
6. Where the First Nation wishes to authorize an expenditure not authorized in this Law, or change the amount of an expenditure authorized, Council must amend this Law in accordance with Council procedure and the requirements of the Act.
7. The grant amounts set out in the annual budget are hereby approved as expenditures in accordance with the Taxation Law.
8. This Law authorizes the expenditure of contingency amounts as necessary within any of the categories of expenditures set out in the Schedule.
9. Except where otherwise defined, words and expressions used in this Law have the meanings given to them in the Assessment Law and the Taxation Law.
10. Where a provision in this Law is expressed in the present tense, the provision applies to the circumstances as they arise.
11. This Law must be construed as being remedial and must be given such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation as best ensures the attainn1ent of its objectives.
12.(1) The Schedule attached to this Law, including any Appendices, forms pait of and is an integral part of this Law.
(2) A reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Law. 13. This Law comes into force and effect on the day after it is approved by the First Nations Tax Commission.
THIS LAW IS HEREBY DULY ENACTED by Council on the ~ Chilliwack, in the Province of British Columbia.
A quorum of Cou~onsists of three (3) members of Council. ~o
day of May, 2024, at
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Counci\or Willy Hall
Councillor Teressa Galis
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SCHEDULE
ANNUAL BUDGET
PART 1: REVENUES I .Property tax revenues to be collected in budget year: a. Property Tax Revenues b. Prope1iy Transfer Tax Revenues
TOTAL REVENUES:
PART 2: EXPENDITURES 1. General Government Expenditures a. General Administrative b. Local Service Agreement 2. Protection Services a. Firefighting b. Local Service Agreement 3. Transportation a. Roads and Streets b. Local Service Agreement 4. Recreation and Cultural Services a. Recreation b. Local Service Agreement 5. Community Development a. Local Service Agreement
$1,722,065.00 $450,000.00
$2,172,065.00
$65,940.00 $69,194.00
$18,405.00 $338,280.00
$178,404.00 $138,388.00
$2,289,648.00 $169,140.00
$7,688.00
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6. Fiscal Services a. Long-term Payments to the First Nations Finance Authority
b. Local Service Agreement 7. Grants a. Homeowner Grants 8. Contingency Amount 9. Transfers into reserve funds a. Transfer into TCA Reserve Fund
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
PART 3: ACCUMULATED SURPLUS/DEFICIT 1. Accumulated Surplus- revenues carried forward from the previous budget year 2. Accumulated Surplus- revenues carried forward from the previous budget year BALANCE
$135,496.00
$46,129.00
$350,000.00 $65,160.00
$500,000.00
$4,371,872.00
$2,199,807.00
$0.00 $0.00
Note: The First Nation has the following service agreements with third-patty service providers, and the amounts indicated are the amounts payable by the First Nation under each agreement during the budget year:
a. City of Chilliwack b. BC Assessment
$768,819.00 $14,364.00
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Appendix Reserve Fund Balances
1. TCA Reserve fund Beginning balance as of April 1, 2024 Transfers out a. to current year's revenues: b. to reserve fund as a transfer: c. money's borrowed for another purpose: Transfers in a. from current year's revenues: b. from reserve fund as a transfer: c. borrowed moneys repaid to fund: Interest earned in current year: Ending balance as of March 31, 2025
$1,957,000.00
$0.00 $500,000.00 $0.00
$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $73,710.00 $2,530,710.00
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