The following is a news release about bargain fuel purchasing on reservations
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January 19, 1989
Reservation's Taxes May End Detours for Cheap Gas
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
LEAD: Each day hundreds of people stop briefly just inside the reservation here near the shore of Lake Erie. Most are truck drivers or cigarette smokers looking for bargains.
Each day hundreds of people stop briefly just inside the reservation here near the shore of Lake Erie. Most are truck drivers or cigarette smokers looking for bargains.
For years the shoppers have found them. The Seneca Indians, claiming a sovereign right to set taxes on their reservation, have declined to levy any taxes at all. The effect has been the creation of the dominant industry here. Stores like the Seneca Hawk Truck Stop and the Iroquois Smoke Shop sell gasoline and diesel fuel for as much as 25 cents a gallon less than nearby off-reservation businesses and cartons of cigarettes for about $2 less. Claims to $10 Million a Year in Taxes
But now, amid pressure from competitors and the state, the end of the rock-bottom prices may be at hand. In a landmark agreement with the state, the Seneca Nation has pledged to begin imposing its own taxes. The state, in return, will give up its claims to up to $10 million a year in taxes on sales to non-Indians and will instead let the impoverished Senecas keep the revenues.
The decision has prompted outrage from some Seneca merchants, reassurances from their tribal leaders and an expression of relief from the State Tax Commissioner, who was facing intense protests about the low prices from non-Indian businesses and a suit by a trade group called the Northeast Truck Stop Operators.
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Apparently it didn't work. Today I filled up at Seneca One Stop. I68 Exit 20,Salamacha,Ny. The price was about eighteen cents less than the closest Pilot.
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January 19, 1989
Reservation's Taxes May End Detours for Cheap Gas
By SAM HOWE VERHOVEK, SPECIAL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES
LEAD: Each day hundreds of people stop briefly just inside the reservation here near the shore of Lake Erie. Most are truck drivers or cigarette smokers looking for bargains.
Each day hundreds of people stop briefly just inside the reservation here near the shore of Lake Erie. Most are truck drivers or cigarette smokers looking for bargains.
For years the shoppers have found them. The Seneca Indians, claiming a sovereign right to set taxes on their reservation, have declined to levy any taxes at all. The effect has been the creation of the dominant industry here. Stores like the Seneca Hawk Truck Stop and the Iroquois Smoke Shop sell gasoline and diesel fuel for as much as 25 cents a gallon less than nearby off-reservation businesses and cartons of cigarettes for about $2 less. Claims to $10 Million a Year in Taxes
But now, amid pressure from competitors and the state, the end of the rock-bottom prices may be at hand. In a landmark agreement with the state, the Seneca Nation has pledged to begin imposing its own taxes. The state, in return, will give up its claims to up to $10 million a year in taxes on sales to non-Indians and will instead let the impoverished Senecas keep the revenues.
The decision has prompted outrage from some Seneca merchants, reassurances from their tribal leaders and an expression of relief from the State Tax Commissioner, who was facing intense protests about the low prices from non-Indian businesses and a suit by a trade group called the Northeast Truck Stop Operators.
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Apparently it didn't work. Today I filled up at Seneca One Stop. I68 Exit 20,Salamacha,Ny. The price was about eighteen cents less than the closest Pilot.
