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FIRST NATIONS TAX COMMISSION COMMISSION 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 Gitsegukla First Nation in the Province of British Columbia,
GITSEGUKLA FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2022
Dated at Kamloops, British Columbia this 20th day of December 2022.
· sioner C.T. (Manny) Jules On beha lf of the First Nations Tax Commission
GITSEGUKLA FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2022 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 property taxation law; C. Subsection 10(2) of the First Nations Fiscal Management Act requires a first nation that has made a property taxation law or a law under paragraph 5(1)(a.1) 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 ofrevenues 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 Gitsegukla First Nation duly enacts as follows: 1. This Law may be cited as the Gitsegukla First Nation Annual Expenditure Law, 2022. 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 Gitsegukla First Nation Property Assessment Law, 2013; "Council" has the meaning given to that term in the Act; "First Nation" means the Gitsegukla 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 ofa tax imposed by a law made under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act;
"prope1ty taxation law" means a law enacted by the First Nation under paragraph 5(1)(a) of the Act; and "Taxation Law" means the Gitsegukla First Nation Property Taxation Law, 2013. 3. The First Nation's annual budget for the budget year beginning April 1, 2022, and ending March 31, 2023, 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 cmTent 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. This Law authorizes the expenditure of contingency amounts as necessa1y within any of the categories of expenditures set out in the Schedule.
8. 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.
9. Where a provision in this Law is expressed in the present tense, the provision applies to the circumstances as they arise.
10. This Law must be constrned as being remedial and must be given such fair, large and liberal constrnction and interpretation as best ensures the attainment of its objectives.
11.(1) The Schedule attached to this Law, including any Appendices, forms part of and is an integral part of this Law.
(2) A reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to this Law. 12. 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 13th day of December, 2022, at Gitsegukla in the Province of British Columbia.
A quorum of Council consists of five (5) members of Council.
Chief Anne Howard e-Signed by Mel Aksidan 2022-12-15 18:48:03:03 GMT
Councillor Melvin (Mel) Aksidan e-Signed by Thelma Marsden 2022-12-1518:43:25:25 GMT
Councillor Thelma Marsden e-Signed by Julia Walker 2022-12-1518:41 :39:39 GMT
Councillor Julia Walker e-Signed by Wendy Wesley 2022-12-15 23:27:56:56 GMT
Deputy Chief Randy Russell 913-Signed by Jen Gladstone 2022-12-15 19:06:37:37 GMT
Councillor Jennifer Gladstone-Howard e-Signed by Crystal Smith 2022-12-1518:19:54:54 GMT
Councillor Crystal Smith e-Signed by Brian Wesley 2022-12-1518:41:58:58 GMT
Councillor Brian Wesley Sr.
Councillor Wendy Wesley
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SCHEDULE ANNUAL BUDGET
PARTl:REVENUES 1. Property tax revenues to be collected in budget year: a. Property Tax Revenues b. Payments received in lieu of taxes c. Other grants
TOTAL REVENUES
PART 2: EXPENDITURES 1. General Govermnent Expenditures a. Executive and Legislative b. General Administrative 2. Transpo1tation a. Roads and Streets 3. Recreation and Cultural Services a. Recreation b. Culture 4. Community Development a. C01mnunity Planning b. Economic Development Program c. Housing planning 5. Other Services a. Health d. Education 6. Contingency Amount
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
PART 3: ACCUMULATED SURPLUS/DEFICIT 1. Accumulated Surplus - revenues carried forward from the previous budget year
2.
Accumulated Deficit revenue expenditures carried forward from the previous budget year
BALANCE
$1,514 $51,750 $4,000
$57,264
$5,000 $5,000
$15,000 $6,800 $15,000
$27,500 $51,500 $10,000
$20,000 $5,000 $5,000
$165,800
$123,437
$0
$14,901
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