FIRST NATIONS TAX COMMISSION COMM ISSION DE LA FISCALITE DES PREMIERES NATIONS
The First Nations Tax Commission, pursuant to the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, hereby approves the following law made by the Akisqnuk First Nation in the Province of British Columbia,
?AK/SQNUK FIRST NATION ANNUAL TAX RATES LAW, 2025
Dated at Kamloops, British Columbia this 26th day of June, 2025.
i oner C.T. (Manny)Jules On behalf of the First Nations Tax Commission
?akisqnuk First Nation 3050 Hwy 93/95 Windermere, B.C. V0B 2L2 Office: 250.342.6301 Fax: 250.342.9693 www.akisgnuk.org
2025/26 BAND COUNCIL RESOLUTION #03 2025-2026 (FIN)
THE COUNCIL OF THE ?AKISQNUK FIRST NATION, AT A DULY CONVENED MEETING ON THE ?AKISQNUK FIRST NATION RESERVE #3, ON THIS 28TH DAY OF MAY 2025:
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 to establish tax rates and apply them to the assessed value of those lands and interests or rights; B. The council of the First Nation has made a property assessment law and a property taxation law; and C. Subsection 10{1} of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act requires a first nation that has made a property taxation law to, at least once each year, make a law setting the rate of tax to be applied to the assessed value of each class of lands and interests or rights;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The Council of the 7akisqnuk First Nation duly enacts as follows: 1. This Law may be cited as the ?akisqnuk First Nation Annual Tax Rates Law, 2025. 2. In this Law: "Act" means the First Nations Fiscal Management Act, S.C. 2005, c. 9, and the regulations made under that Act; "Assessment Law" means the ?akisqnuk First Nation Property Assessment Law, 2016; "First Nation" means the 7akisqnuk First Nation, being a band named in the schedule to the Act; "property taxation law" means a law enacted by the First Nation under paragraph 5{1}{a) of the Act; "taxable property" has the meaning given to that term in the Taxation Law; and "Taxation Law" means the ?akisqnuk First Nation Property Taxation Law, 2016. 3. Taxes levied pursuant to the Taxation Law for the taxation year 2025 shall be determined by imposing the rates set out in the Schedule upon the assessed value of all taxable property in each property class. 4. Notwithstanding section 3, where the amount of the tax levied on taxable property in a taxation year is less than one hundred dollars {$100}, the taxable property shall be taxed at one hundred dollars {$100} for the taxation year.
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5. 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. 6. Where a provision in this Law is expressed in the present tense, the provision applies to the circumstances as they arise. 7. This Law must be construed as being remedial and must be given such fair, large and liberal construction and interpretation as best ensures the attainment of its objectives. 8. The Schedule attached to this Law forms part of and is an integral part of this Law. 9. 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 28 in the Province of British Columbia.
CHIEF DONALD SAM {}))4]~
COUNCILLOR ALLAN NICHOLAS /APD COUNCILLOR FARO BURGOYNE
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day of May 2025, at Windermere,
COUNCILLOR DARCY FISHER
COUNCILLOR JANICE ALPINE
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PROPERTY CLASS
Class 1 - Residential
Class 2 - Utilities
Class 6 - Business and Other
SCHEDULE TAX RATES
?akisqnuk First Nation 3050 Hwy 93/95 Windermere, B.C. V0B 2L2 Office: 250.342.6301 Fax: 250.342.9693 www.akisqnuk.org
RATE PER $1,000 of Assessed Value
4.11762
32.23106
6.83511
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