Section 9-11-12.2 - Cooperative agreements with Navajo Nation. - New Mexico Statutes

9-11-12.2. Cooperative agreements with Navajo Nation.

A.     The secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the Navajo Nation for the exchange of information and the reciprocal, joint or common enforcement, administration, collection, remittance and audit of tax revenues of the party jurisdictions.   

B.     Money collected by the department on behalf of the Navajo Nation in accordance with an agreement entered into pursuant to this section is not money of this state and shall be collected and disbursed in accordance with the terms of the agreement, notwithstanding any other provision of law.   

C.     The secretary is empowered to promulgate such rules and to establish such procedures as the secretary deems appropriate for the collection and disbursement of funds due the Navajo Nation and for the receipt of money collected by the Navajo Nation for the account of this state under the terms of a cooperative agreement entered into under the authority of this section, including procedures for identification of taxpayers or transactions that are subject only to the taxing authority of the Navajo Nation, taxpayers or transactions that are subject only to the taxing authority of this state and taxpayers or transactions that are subject to the taxing authority of both party jurisdictions.   

D.     Nothing in an agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be construed as authorizing this state or the Navajo Nation to tax persons or transactions that federal law prohibits that government from taxing, or as authorizing a state or tribal court to assert jurisdiction over persons who are not otherwise subject to that court's jurisdiction or as affecting any issue of the respective civil or criminal jurisdictions of this state or the Navajo Nation. Nothing in an agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be construed as an assertion or an admission by either this state or the Navajo Nation that the taxes of one have precedence over the taxes of the other when the person or transaction is subject to the taxing authority of both governments. An agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall be construed solely as an agreement between the two party governments and shall not alter or affect the government-to-government relations between this state and any other Indian nation, tribe or pueblo.