• AREAS OF FIRST NATIONS LAW
• First Nations Citizenship and Indian Act Registration;
• Aboriginal and Treaty rights litigation;
• Economic development and corporations;
• Non-Profit service delivery organizations;
• Reserve land use planning;
• Consultation and accommodation of natural resource rights;
• Self-government and First Nations laws;
• Historical specific claims;
• Oral History and Ethnohistory;
• Indian Residential Schools;
• Indian Act Taxation;

JERCHLAW has advised First Nations organizations, employees and First Nations in regards to:

• The connecting factors test under section 87 tax exemption under the Indian Act;


• The Canada Revenue Agency 4 point income tax exemption guidelines;


• First Nations property and point of sale tax exemptions;


• Arguments and legal theory relating to tax exemptions and Treaty arguments;


• Corporate vehicles and economic development related taxation issues under the section 149(1)(l) Income Tax Act relating to municipal exemptions;