First Nations students who receive tribal money to attend college won't have to pay taxes until 2006.
Canada's Customs and Revenue Agency planned to college the tax next year. First Nations educators plan to use the delay to lobby against collection of the tax.
The agency decided to collect the tax after ruling that post-secondary education is not a treaty right.
Get the Story:
Government delays education tax until 2006
(CBC 7/26)
Related Stories:
Agency rules college education not a treaty
right (7/23)
Tax on Native college students delayed until 2006
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Trending in News
1 Tribes rush to respond to new coronavirus emergency created by Trump administration
2 'At this rate the entire tribe will be extinct': Zuni Pueblo sees COVID-19 cases double as first death is confirmed
3 Arne Vainio: 'A great sickness has been visited upon us as human beings'
4 Arne Vainio: Zoongide'iwin is the Ojibwe word for courage
5 Cayuga Nation's division leads to a 'human rights catastrophe'
2 'At this rate the entire tribe will be extinct': Zuni Pueblo sees COVID-19 cases double as first death is confirmed
3 Arne Vainio: 'A great sickness has been visited upon us as human beings'
4 Arne Vainio: Zoongide'iwin is the Ojibwe word for courage
5 Cayuga Nation's division leads to a 'human rights catastrophe'