Iowa Code § 421.47 - Tax agreements with Indian tribes

1. “Indian country” means the Indian country as defined in 18 U.S.C. §1151, and includes trust land as defined by the United States secretary of the interior. 2. a. The department and the governing body of an Indian tribe may enter into an agreement to provide for the collection and distribution or refund by the department within Indian country of any tax or fee imposed by the state and administered by the department. b. An agreement may also provide for the collection and distribution by the department of any tribal tax or fee imposed by tribal ordinance. The agreement may provide for the retention of an administrative fee by the department which fee shall be an agreed-upon percentage of the gross revenue of the tribal tax or fee collected. 3. An Act of Congress regulating the collection of state taxes and their remittance to the states shall preempt an agreement between the department and the governing body of an Indian tribe under this section to the extent such federal Act regulates the collection and remittance of a tax covered by the agreement. 4. An agreement between the department and the governing body of an Indian tribe under this section shall not preclude the negotiation of an amendment to such agreement, which conforms to an Act of Congress regulating the collection of state taxes and their remittance to the states. 2002 Acts, ch 1151, §4; 2011 Acts, ch 25, §143