Witness list for SCIA hearing on self-determination and taxation

Wednesday, June 13, 2012  

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee hosts a hearing tomorrow on self-determination and taxation.

The hearing will examine recent efforts by the Internal Revenue Service to audit and tax tribal general welfare programs and per capita payments from federal trust funds and settlements, according to a committee notice.

The hearing takes place at 2:15pm in Room 628 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. The witness list follows:

Panel I
THE HONORABLE JOHN YELLOW BIRD STEELE, President, Oglala Sioux Tribe

THE HONORABLE ATHENA SANCHEY-YALLUP, Secretary of the Tribal Council, Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Panel II
MR. AARON KLEIN, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Coordination, U.S. Department of the Treasury

MS. CHRISTIE J. JACOBS, Director, Office of Indian Tribal Governments, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Panel III
MS. LYNN MALERBA, Chief of Mohegan Tribe, on behalf of the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc.

MR. WILLIAM LOMAX, President, Native American Finance Officers Association

Committee Notice:
OVERSIGHT HEARING on New Tax Burdens on Tribal Self-Determination (June 14, 2012)