McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Commission

McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Comm'n
Argued December 12, 1972
Decided March 27, 1973
Full case nameMcClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Commission
Citations411 U.S. 164 (more)
93 S. Ct. 1257; 36 L. Ed. 2d 129; 1973 U.S. LEXIS 89
Case history
PriorMcClanahan v. State Tax Commission, 484 P.2d 221 (Ariz. App. Div. 1 1971).
Holding
Arizona has no jurisdiction to impose a tax on the income of Navajo Indians residing on the Navajo Reservation and whose income is wholly derived from reservation sources.
Court membership
Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger
Associate Justices
William O. Douglas · William J. Brennan Jr.
Potter Stewart · Byron White
Thurgood Marshall · Harry Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr. · William Rehnquist
Case opinion
MajorityMarshall, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
Treaty with the Navajo Indians, 15 Stat. 667; Buck Act, 4 U.S.C. § 104 et seq.; Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. §43-102(a)

McClanahan v. Arizona State Tax Comm'n, 411 U.S. 164 (1973), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States holding that Arizona has no jurisdiction to impose a tax on the income of Navajo Indians residing on the Navajo Reservation if their income is wholly derived from reservation sources.