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Click here first to read important
information concerning the Swinomish tobacco tax issue

Click here to read a Swinomish tobacco tax
petition presented to the Tribal Senate in March 1999

Click here to read a May memorandum
on Tribal Senate progress regarding the
Swinomish tobacco tax issue

Click here to read a fairy tale
version of the Wilbur family business
success in their own words

Click here to read an important update on the
tobacco tax issue

Click here to read brief for Colville (1980)
case regarding state taxation
of cigarrette sales on reservations


(Note:pay special attention to the dissenting opinions. And think about recent articles in the local paper regarding state crackdown on purchasers of untaxed (state taxed) cigarettes at March's Point.)

Click here to read Ordinance 140
Tobacco Tax Ordinance quietly adopted by
the Swinomish Tribal Senate
May 5, 2000 "repealing" Amend. Ord. 29

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