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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 Gitsegukla First Nation in the Province of British Columbia,
G/TSEGUKLA FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 2025
Dated at Kamloops, British Columbia this 16th day of October, 2025.
Chief Commissioner anny) Jules On behalf of the First Nations Tax Commission
GITSEGUKLA FIRST NATION ANNUAL EXPENDITURE LAW, 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 authorizing the expenditure of local revenues;
B. The Council of the First Nation has made a property assessment law and a property taxation law; C. Subsection I 0(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. I) 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 Gitsegukla First Nation duly enacts as follows: 1. This Law may be cited as the Gitsegukla First Nation Annual Expenditure 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;
"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(l)(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(l)(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, 2025 and ending March 31, 2026 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. This Law authorizes the expenditure of contingency amounts a necessary 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 provi sion 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 construction and interpretation as best ensures the attainment of its objectives .
11.( I) The Schedule attached to this Law including any Appendices, fo1111S pa11 of and is an integral part of thi Law.
(2) A reference to the Schedule is a reference to the Schedule to th is Law. 12. This Law comes into force and effect on the day after it is approved by the First Commission.
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~ber THIS LAW IS HEREBY DULY ENACTED by Counc il on the .a9day ofAogosc, 2025, atGitsegukla, in the Province of British Columbia
A quorum of Council consists of five (5) members of Council.
Chief Anne Howard
Deputy Chief Jennifer Gladstone
Councillor Randy Ru sell
Councillor Noel Argueta
Councillor Julia Walker
Counci:rClarence Jones
Councillor Ken Tait
Counc illor Grace Williams
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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 TOTA L REVENUES
PART2:EXPENDITURES 1. General Government Expenditures a. Executive and Legislative b. General Administrative 2. Recreation and Cultural Services a. Recreation b. Culture c. Heritage Protection d. Other Recreation and Culture 3. Community Development a. Community Planning b. Economic Development Program c. Other Regional Planning and Development 4. Environment Health Services a. Garbage Waste Collection and Disposal 5. Other Services a. Health b. Education 6. Contingency Amount
TOTAL EXPENDITURES
PART 3: ACCUMULATED SURPLUS/DEFICIT 1. Accumulated Surplus - revenues carried forward from the previous budget year
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Accumulated Deficit - revenue expenditures carried forward from the previous budget year
BALANCE
$ 1,902 $61,435 $63,337
$ 5,000 $ 5,000
$20,000 $ 15,000 $20,000 $10,000
$ 5,000 $15,000 $ 5,000
$15,000 $ 5,000 $50,000 $4,600
$174,600
$339,932
$
$228,669
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