Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee Meeting set for June 20, 2019

June 10, 2019

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On Wednesday, June 5, the Treasury Department published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee (TTAC) will meet on Thursday, June 20,  from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time in Washington, D.C., at the Treasury Building (Cash Room-2121), 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. The meeting is open to the public.

Registration: Interested attendees must register online or by telephone no later than 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, June 11. Interested attendees should register soon because the meeting will be held in a secure building and individuals must be cleared in order to enter the building. Space may also be limited. Online registration is available here. To register by phone, individuals may contact Marie Vazquez Lopez at (202) 622–2049.

Agenda: The following items are expected to be discussed during this meeting:

  • Introduction of TTAC members and co-chair appointments.
  • Review of the TTAC charter and mandate.
  • Discussion of various federal income tax issues relating to Indians, including:
    • Federal income tax issues relating to access to capital.
    • Opportunity zones.
    • Changes to the so-called ‘‘kiddie tax.”
    • General welfare exclusion education of internal revenue field agents.
  • Identification of other topics of interest for 2019.
  • Any other actions necessary to fulfill the TTAC’s mandate.

Comments: Members of the public wishing to comment on the business of the TTAC are invited to submit written statements by any of the following methods: (1) Send electronic comments to Tribal.Consult@treasury.gov; or (2) Send paper statements in triplicate to the Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee, Department of the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Room 1426G, Washington, D.C. 20220.

The Department of the Treasury will post all statements on its website without change and make such statements available for public inspection and copying in the Department of the Treasury’s Library, 720 Madison Place NW, Room 1020, Washington, D.C. 20220.

Contact Information

If you have any questions concerning this alert, please contact:

Don Pongrace
Email
Washington, D.C.
+1 202.887.4466

Allison Binney
Email
Washington, D.C.
+1 202.887.4326

Jenny Patten Magallanes
Email
Washington, D.C.
+1 202.887.4572

 

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