Business
Reservation store closes over tax dispute with tribe


The owner of a grocery store on the Rocky Boy's Reservation in Montana has closed shop over a tax dispute with the Chippewa Cree Tribe.

Debbie St. Pierre was ordered to shut down the store for failing to pay the tribe's 55-cent tobacco tax. The tribe says she owes $5,500 in back taxes.

The store will remain closed while St. Pierre challenges the tax, which she says is illegal.

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Rocky Boy store closes over disputed tribal cigarette tax (The Havre Daily News 7/7)

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