OBA Aboriginal Law PROGRAM | 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM (ET)

Join us to explore the many tax collection opportunities available to Indigenous communities. Our expert faculty will explain where these opportunities exist and how to help Indigenous communities access them, including. 

• Citing historical and modern treaty examples of Indigenous tax collection
• Reviewing federal legislation authorizing the creation of modern Indigenous tax regimes.
• Explaining how the First Nations Tax Commission helps First Nations and their lawyers set up tax régimes under the First Nations Fiscal Management Act (FMA).
• Telling the story of how an Ontario First Nation successfully set up a property tax régime under the FMA and how other Ontario First Nations are also doing so.
• Learning how generated tax revenues are not only exempt from offsets under the federal Own Source Revenue policy but how they provide better access to infrastructure financing tools.
• Reviewing key tax considerations for First Nations counsel, including tax-sharing opportunities and potential tax liabilities.

PROGRAM CHAIR

David G. Leitch, Barrister and Solicitor

SPEAKERS

Michael Welters, Aldridge + Rosling LLP
Marie L. Potvin, KC, External Legal Counsel, First Nations Tax Commission
Kate McCue, Senior Economist, Fiscal Realities Economists
Petri Bailey, Headwaters LLP