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Excerpt from Empowerment Zone Provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993: Hearing Before the Information, Justice, Transportation, and Agriculture Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, October 5, 1994
Another significant disincentive to economic development which I hope the Com mirtee will address in the future is the growing problem of double taxation, wherein states increasingly are assessing taxes on non-indian business activities permitted by, and oc curring wholly ou, Indian lands. As I explained in July of 1991 to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures: This double taxation interferes with our ability to encourage economic activity and to develop effective revenue generating tax programs.
We find it especially hard to attract business to the reservation unless we make concessions that nearly defeat the purpose of wanting to attract business to the reservation in the first place.
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