In addition, municipalities that change the rate of the LST or impose a new LST need to notify DCED of the new rate by December 1, 2007.[5] The name of the tax should be changed from the âEmergency and Municipal Services Taxâ to the âLocal Services Tax.â Deadlines follow. New Tax.
Other tribes lost their languages and most of their culture. Nonetheless, Native Americans have proved to be resilient. Today they number 4.5 million (about 1.5 percent of the total U.S. population), and only about one-third of Native Americans still live on reservations. Countless American place-names derive from Indian words, including the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, and Idaho.
As many as 100,000 Native Americans relocated to the West as a result of this Indian removal policy. In theory, relocation was supposed to be voluntary and many Native Americans did remain in the East. In practice, great pressure was put on Native American leaders to sign removal treaties.