NATIONAL INTERTRIBAL TAX ALLIANCE
14th ANNUAL TAX CONFERENCE

Hard Rock Casino
Tulsa, Oklahoma

September 25th- 27th

Download the NITA Registration Form
Download the NITA 2011 agenda

REGISTRATION DETAILS
September 25th Conference Day One:
7:55 am – 12:00 pm – Golf Tournament at Twin Warriors (Tamaya Resort & Spa)
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm – NITA Conference Registration and Special Workshops
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Reception at Tamaya Resort

September 26th Conference Day Two
Tax Litigation Update
Federal Tobacco Taxes, PACT Act Issues and Implementation
Telecommunication Taxes for Tribes
Energy and Tribal Economic Development

September 27th Conference Day Three
IRS Update
Legislative Tax Update
Negotiating Tribal-State Compacts
Tribal Tax Codes and Tax Commissions

Room Rate of $77.00/per night
1-505-867-1234
Below is a link to the Tamaya Resort and Spa
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&groupID=3545505

*CONFERENCE Registration is $425.00 by Aug 31st
(Or $375.00 per person for Group of 3 or more after)
$450.00 for Registration in September
*For Golf Tournament Registration contact: John Bighorse at 918-287-5382 or jbighorse@osagetribe.org (Golf fee is $116.59 per person)

CONFERENCE AGENDA
September 25, 2011 Monday

7:55 – 12:00 GOLF TOURNAMENT at Twin Warriors Golf Club (Tamaya Resort)

2:00 – 5:00 REGISTRATION
Contact: Kimberly Soliano, (918-688-7622 or KSoliano@osagetribe.org)

2:00 – 5:00 Pre-Conference Workshops
–Drafting Tribal Tax Codes and Structuring Tribal Tax Commissions
–Structuring Tribal Educational, Housing and other Governmental Programs to Minimize Tax Costs to Tribal Members [Mary Streitz and Kathleen Nilles]

6:00 – 9:00 RECEPTION – Tamaya Resort and Spa (location to be determined)

September 26, 2011 Tuesday

8:00 – REGISTRATION

8:00-8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (for all Conference Registrants)

8:30-9:00 FLAG PRESENTATION
WELCOME — TBD
OPENING PRAYER — TBD
OPENING REMARKS
Mary Mashunkashey (Tax Administrator, Osage Nation Tax Commission, and Chairman, National Intertribal Tax Alliance)

9:00 – 9:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (invited) (Topic—TBD)

9:45 – 10:30 TAX LITIGATION UPDATE –Moderator: Kelly Croman (General Counsel, Marine View Ventures). Speakers: Tom Schlosser (Attorney, Morriset, Schlosser Ayer & Jozwiak); Skip DuRocher (Dorsey & Whitney LLP).

10:30-10:45 BREAK

10:45-12:00 STRATEGIES AND ISSUES in STATE TAXATION OF INDIAN COUNTRY TRANSACTIONS. Moderator: Paul Shagen, Lead Attorney, Lac Courte D’Oreille. Speakers, Alix Foster, Legal Counsel, Swinomish Tribe; William Wood, Research Fellow, University of California at Los Angeles.

12:00 – 1:15 LUNCH (provided for all Conference Registrants)—Luncheon Presentation—Susan Williams, Esq. (Tribal Taxation as an Exercise of Tribal Sovereignty)

1:15 – 2:45 BREAK OUT SESSIONS A AND B

A. FEDERAL TOBACCO TAXES, PACT ACT AND REGULATIONS
Moderator: Dale White, General Counsel, Ohserase Manufacturing, LLC. Panelists: Scott Wheat; Cory Albright; et al

B. TELECOMMUNICATION TAXES FOR TRIBES
Moderator: Randal Evans, Esq.

2:45 – 3:00 BREAK

3:00—4:00 BREAK OUT SESSIONS C AND D

C. TRIBAL TRUST ACCOUNTS AND RELATED TAX ISSUES
Moderator: Gigi Modrich, Esq., Holland & Knight. Speakers: Vince Logan, and others to be determined.

D. TRIBAL TAXES: HOW TO MAXIMIZE REVENUE
Moderator:

4:15 – 5:30 RENEWABLE ENERGY and TRIBAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Moderator: Bruce Zimmerman (Tax Director, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla). Speakers: Tracey LeBeau, U.S. Department of Energy; former Senator Byron Dorgan, Doug MacCourt (Ater Wynne)

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

September 27, 2011 Wednesday

8:00 – 8:30 CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (for all Conference Registrants)

8:35 PRAYER –

8:45 -9:45 IRS UPDATE
Kathleen Nilles (Partner, Holland & Knight)
Christie Jacobs (National Director, Office of Indian Tribal Governments, Internal Revenue Service); Joe Lenihan, IRS ACT Committee; Wendy Pearson, IRS ACT Committee.

9:45 – 10:00 BREAK

10:00 – 11:00 FEDERAL and STATE TAX POLICY UPDATE by National Congress of American Indians

Jacqueline Johnson Pata and John Dossett (National Congress of American Indians)

11:15-12:00 TOPIC TO BE DETERMINED

12:00 – 1:30 LUNCH (provided for all Conference Registrants)
Luncheon Presentation–TBD

1:30 – 2:45 NEGOTIATING TRIBAL-STATE TAX COMPACTS (panel)

Kelly S. Croman-Neelands (General Counsel, Marine View Ventures); John Fredericks (Partner, Fredericks, Peebles & Morgan )

2:45 – 3:00 BREAK

3:00 – 3:45 PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR’S CONFERENCE

3:45 – 4:00 ADJOURN – CLOSING PRAYER

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