Supreme Court Skips Case Over Oklahoma Tax on Tribal Citizen (1)

The US Supreme Court won’t review an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that Native Americans living and working on tribal land must pay state income tax.

Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen Alicia Stroble sought the high court’s intervention after the state justices refused to extend the US Supreme Court’s 2020 holding in McGirt v. Oklahoma—that the tribe’s reservation is Indian country—to bar the state from imposing income tax on those living and working there. The state court sided with the Oklahoma Tax Commission, which argued that McGirt isn’t applicable because that was a federal case involving a criminal statute.

Oklahoma’s approach ...