At risk of doxxing myself, I'll say that I know one of her daughters personally from when I was younger, in my university days.
The charges were dropped for both the daughters when the mother accepted guilt, but make no mistake that the daughters are 100% complicit in this fraud. They've taken hundreds of thousands in tuition dollars and scholarships as well as native-only government business grants. As faux natives they've never paid any tax in their entire lives. One went to law school entirely on the taxpayers' dime -- and she got in just for being "native" -- which is approximately $100k in tuition even in Canada.
These girls absolutely knew what they were doing, and the court claiming to make an example of the "mother" here is an absolute farce when the girls walk scot-free after also defrauding Canadians for years. The mother was a convicted serial fraudster even before this and several of their family members have shunned them for years prior. Fuck every single thing about this case and them.
As faux natives they've never paid any tax in their entire lives.
None of it takes away from your overall point, but this absolutism is certainly untrue. (Unless there's additional Inuit exemptions that I am aware of).
They would've been exempt from provincial/territorial sales taxes but still had to pay federal ones on consumer purchases off reserve.
Same with income taxes. They would've paid provincial/territorial & federal taxes on any income earned off a reserve.
So they would've benefited from exemptions on things like provincial sales taxes and taxes on gasoline, but still would've been paying other sucker taxes.
Thank you, didn't know this. Sidenote, one thing I appreciate about this place (and your comment) is how corrections are mostly offered respectfully. Your response actually got me looking into the Indian Act and native tax exemptions to better educate myself.
Since they were claiming to be Inuit in the High Arctic but living down south, it's certainly possible that they managed to benefit from other Northern tax perks that I'm unfamiliar with.
I know the rules better for mainland Canada where the biggest distinction is on vs off reserve jurisdictions.
Given Inuits don't live on reserves AFAIK, there may be different idiosyncrasies how things work up in the tundra.
At risk of doxxing myself, I'll say that I know one of her daughters personally from when I was younger, in my university days.
The charges were dropped for both the daughters when the mother accepted guilt, but make no mistake that the daughters are 100% complicit in this fraud. They've taken hundreds of thousands in tuition dollars and scholarships as well as native-only government business grants. As faux natives they've never paid any tax in their entire lives. One went to law school entirely on the taxpayers' dime -- and she got in just for being "native" -- which is approximately $100k in tuition even in Canada.
These girls absolutely knew what they were doing, and the court claiming to make an example of the "mother" here is an absolute farce when the girls walk scot-free after also defrauding Canadians for years. The mother was a convicted serial fraudster even before this and several of their family members have shunned them for years prior. Fuck every single thing about this case and them.
None of it takes away from your overall point, but this absolutism is certainly untrue. (Unless there's additional Inuit exemptions that I am aware of).
They would've been exempt from provincial/territorial sales taxes but still had to pay federal ones on consumer purchases off reserve.
Same with income taxes. They would've paid provincial/territorial & federal taxes on any income earned off a reserve.
So they would've benefited from exemptions on things like provincial sales taxes and taxes on gasoline, but still would've been paying other sucker taxes.
Thank you, didn't know this. Sidenote, one thing I appreciate about this place (and your comment) is how corrections are mostly offered respectfully. Your response actually got me looking into the Indian Act and native tax exemptions to better educate myself.
Cheers.
Since they were claiming to be Inuit in the High Arctic but living down south, it's certainly possible that they managed to benefit from other Northern tax perks that I'm unfamiliar with.
I know the rules better for mainland Canada where the biggest distinction is on vs off reserve jurisdictions.
Given Inuits don't live on reserves AFAIK, there may be different idiosyncrasies how things work up in the tundra.