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On the recordSeptember 13, 2012
The tribes worked all these years under the understanding that they would have a trust and when they distributed primarily interest from the capital of the trust to their members it would be nontaxable income.
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Don Young
Republican · Alaska

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Young defends the tax-exempt status of tribal trust distributions.

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