Originally Posted By: FishPrince
Irie, you miss the point. Nobody is talking about on-reservation tribal land or even off reservation tribal trust land. We are talking about off reservation non-trust tribal owned land.

If the City of Seattle buys a hotel in the City of Tacoma and lets some politically connected person run a business there, would it be exempt from property taxes? No it would not. The tribe shouldn't be treated any differently.

I'm a taxpaying non-redneck FYI.


Right, and that was the ruling, wasn't it? That GWL had to pay up.

Because the land is being used as a for-profit private enterprise, and not for public or administrative use.

So WTF's the beef? They're paying taxes on their business properties, just like Ports of Olympia, Tacoma & Seattle have to pay on their for-profit facilities....right?