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On the recordSeptember 13, 2012
If the IRS is engaged or intends to engage in efforts to tax per capita distributions, as our tribal witnesses today will testify, it should cease such efforts immediately.
Said by
Ben Ray Luján
Democratic · New Mexico
Source
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Lujan calls for the IRS to stop taxing per capita distributions to tribal members.

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