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How you can resist funding the government → a survey of tactics of historical tax resistance campaigns → reach out to potential resisters at the time and place of payment → Tax Day actions → 2011

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A list of Tax Day war tax resistance actions nationwide this year. Also: the new War Resisters League federal budget pie chart is out. And: it is becoming more popular for Americans to taxpatriate. Also: the government publishes a guide on how to evade the tobacco tax. And: A 1949 New York Times piece on the war tax resistance of Caroline Urie.

NWTRCC announces this year’s crop of “tax day” war tax resistance actions. Also: “tax day” newspaper articles from years past cover the war tax resistance of Max Sandin, Joan Baez, Irwin Hogenauer, Raymond Hunthausen, Clare Hanrahan, Susan Quinlan, Larry Harper, Bill Ramsey, Ruth Benn, Mary Ann C. Holtz, and Karl Meyer.

Tax Day actions across the country; a new tax resistance campaign for D.C. statehood; attempting to make the coercion of taxation more explicit; the government considers refusing to issue passports to people unless they’ve paid all their taxes; the I.R.S. doesn’t get that budget boost they’d been hoping for; war tax resister Don Schrader profiled; and eleven tax resistance tactics for the rich.

Greg Reagle touts tax resistance on Adam Kokesh’s show, Wendy McElroy ponders tax resistance in light of the Planned Parenthood funding debate, the I.R.S. is noticing more tax evasion and fraud this year, “Bushel Bob” shuts down his produce market to avoid paying war taxes, more Tax Day action reports, 10 reasons not to pay U.S. taxes, and the curious case of the Oath Keepers. Also: A Quaker in 1900 takes pains to avoid revenue stamps. And: a dispatch from the Hut Tax War of 1898.

How you can resist funding the government → the tax resistance movement → conferences & gatherings → Spring 2011 NWTRCC national in Oakland, California

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Brief notes from the business meeting of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. Also: another data point on the mystery of how American Quaker war tax resistance died out in the late 19th century.

I reprint a poem to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the British poll tax rebellion. Also: war tax resisters are giving away the money they’ve been withholding from the tax collector.

A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is on-line. Also: bars in Lansing, Michigan fight back against a smoking ban with a tax resistance campaign; a profile of resister Martha Graber; and more “suspicious packages” force evacuations at I.R.S. processing centers.

The Spring 2011 NWTRCC national gathering is coming up in Berkeley/Oakland. Here’s some of what you can expect if you are able to attend.

Last weekend was the Spring 2001 national gathering of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. The I.R.S. celebrated the occasion by sending me a couple of letters.

NWTRCC has posted some more notes from last month’s National Gathering in Oakland/Berkeley.

17% of Americans think the U.S. government has the “consent of the governed.” Also: a follow-up on Steven Short’s radio show about Northern California War Tax Resistance. And: a video of Tony Serra’s keynote at the last NWTRCC national gathering. Also: Quakers were still notorious for war tax resistance at least as late as 1884…

How you can resist funding the government → the tax resistance movement → publications → More Than a Paycheck

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War Resisters International chair Joanne Sheehan gave the keynote speech at the New England War Tax Resistance Conference last month on Gandhi’s Three Elements of Nonviolent Social Transformation

More news from the NWTRCC strategy conference, and a Peace Tax Form for the I.R.S. Also: some papers on the ethics of tax evasion from Robert McGee. And: there are some new tax credits for people who install certain types of energy-efficient and solar equipment at home or buy certain types of fuel-efficient vehicles next year.

How to start your tax resistance by filing a new W-4. Dave Ridley reports on the aftermath of his I.R.S. protest in Nashua. And: The I.R.S. says it’s never going to retrieve $200 million in fraudulent refunds it gave out last year because its software was hopelessly broken.

A new issue of More Than a Paycheck is out, and war tax resister Bryan Nelson gets some press for the cause. Also: increased IRS enforcement effort only looks impressive on a short time scale.

Jerry DePyper is a rare example of a right-wing conscientious tax resister, on strike against a government that funds abortion and tolerates gay marriage. Also: a profile of Ithica War Tax Resisters, and a new edition of “More Than a Paycheck.”

A new edition of More Than a Paycheck is out, with lots of info from the up-and-coming generation of tax resisters. Also: the I.R.S. announces a major overhaul in how they calculate how much they let you keep to live on while they’re seizing your assets and your paycheck — it’s good news for some of us, not-so-good for others.

A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter features an article I wrote on how to craft a persuasive and motivating tax resistance message, updates on Daniel Jenkins’s legal battles for conscientious objection to military taxation, notes from the New England war tax resistance gathering, and more. Also: the “economic stimulus” package — what will it mean for tax resisters like me?

The new NWTRCC newsletter is out. Also: In 1815, Ephraim Wood spied hypocrisy in Quaker war tax resistance, but, as with so many of the old criticisms and reductiones ad absurdum, this one seems to me to be making some good arguments in favor of tax resistance while trying to invent and discredit bad ones.

NWTRCC’s newsletter is out with lots of news and views of interest to war tax resisters. Also: Indymedia NewsReal broadcasts the trailer to Steev Hise’s “Death and Taxes.” And: Mary King on nonviolent struggle for regime change.

Okay, so you believe me that the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act is a rotten idea. But do I have any better ideas? Yes indeed; here are three. Also: highlights from the new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter, including reviews of “We Won’t Pay” and “American Quaker War Tax Resistance.”

NWTRCC’s December newsletter is out, with notes about frivolous filing penalties, the Eugene meeting, the Peace Tax Seven cases, and the experiences of long-time resister Becky Pierce, among other things. Also: what happened when Karl Meyer put the I.R.S. to the test by filing a tax return every day in 1984.

From the latest issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter: updates on tax policy and the international conscientious objection movements, news and updates about war tax resisters and the war tax resistance movment, a story of how even a first-time token resister might come face to face with the capricious jaws of the I.R.S., and announcing a new speaker’s bureau. That and a great review of “We Won’t Pay!”

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter, More Than a Paycheck, is out. This issue includes a debate about whether or not NWTRCC should endorse the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund bill

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Also: an update on the I.R.S.’s software modernization efforts — after years of missing deadlines and blowing budgets, it looks like they’re throwing in the towel.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Here’s the scoop on what you’ll find inside. Also: the virtue of amiability looks at first like a sort of kindergarten virtue, but finding the right balance is a hard skill for grown-ups too.

A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter includes items on relationships where one person is a tax resister and the other one is not, news on a new war tax resistance film, upcoming and recent war tax resistance actions, and more. Also: Mexican vendors sell tax evasion paraphernalia, making the income tax there nearly a joke.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter, “More Than a Paycheck” with news about last month’s Southeast War Tax Resistance gathering and the criminal case against war tax resister Frank Donnelly. Also: more tax resistance talk in Argentina, and Greek tax collectors go on strike.

A new issue of “More Than a Paycheck” with news and updates, a preview of Tax Day actions this year, Chris Moore-Backman on his legal case, and a profile of Liz Scranton (which reminds me of a produce-addled wild-eyed hairy mountain man). Also: tax resistance against inadqueate police protection in London and for animal protection in Spain.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with an update from Julia Butterfly Hill on her resistance, and reports from the Arizona national gathering and from this year’s tax day actions, among other things. Also, a member of the Women’s Tax Resistance League wrote a history of that movement shortly after it succeeded in winning the vote for women. Unfortunately the only copy I’ve been able to locate is one continent and one ocean away.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is on-line. Also: Bomb-throwing anarchists, mutinies, and revolutionary agitators on the march, in the wake of the Viborg Manifesto, which called on Russians to refuse to pay taxes to the Czar.

A new issue of “More Than a Paycheck,” NWTRCC’s newsletter, is on-line, including news about penny polls, “settle with the IRS for pennies on the dollar” companies, “frivolous filing” overreach from the IRS, Karl Meyer on what makes war tax resisters more vulnerable to criminal prosecution, Ed Hedemann on the history of the U.S. government’s use of property seizures and criminal cases as tools against war tax resisters in the post-World War II era, and more.

How to use the Freedom of Information Act to see what the I.R.S. has on you, the experience of war tax resisters in federal prison camps, more on Evan Reeves’s protest, NWTRCC business here and there, war tax resister Patricia Tompkins, an update on Jorge Güemes, the government seems unable to stop rampant tax fraud conducted by people already behind bars, and more on the work of WikiLeaks and its allies.

A new issue of More Than a Paycheck, with news and updates about war tax resistance, laws relating to war tax resisters, the war tax resistance movement, and so forth.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter: Tony Serra on shit he will not eat, frivolous filing notices get out of hand, various resisters and resistance activities, and a penalty-sharing protester solidarity group in Iowa.

The other night I was in the kitchen, alone in the house, when a large rat tripped the trap in the laundry room. The trap seized around the rat’s neck without snapping it, and the rat thrashed around in agonized panic. So did I, in a manner of speaking. Also: a new issue of More Than a Paycheck is out.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter with news from the war tax resistance movement. Also, a call to war tax resistance from an anti-imperialist book from Britain a century ago wouldn’t sound out of place in the American empire today.

The latest edition of “More Than a Paycheck,” NWTRCC’s newsletter, is on-line. Also, in a new blog, Vickie Aldrich talks about her war tax resistance and her father’s experiences in a Civilian Public Service camp for drafted conscientious objectors during World War Two.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with news about the national (and international) war tax resistance movement. Also: Daniel Ellsberg said he would not have released the Pentagon Papers if it hadn’t been for the influence of war tax resister Randy Kehler. And: video of war tax resisters Jack Herbert and S. Brian Willson on the Veterans For Peace Forum.

The new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, full of news about the Chicago conference, tax day actions, legal updates, international tax resistance news, and more.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is on-line. Also: the Women’s Tax Resistance League marches in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics.

The 30th Anniversary special edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is now on-line. Also: Some more details about the tax resistance of conservative Utah governor J. Bracken Lee, and some examples of when Lee crossed paths with Christian anarchist tax resister Ammon Hennacy while Hennacy was running the Catholic Worker hospitality house in Salt Lake City.

There’s a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter out. Also: A contemporary news account of the tax resisting Associations that helped overthrow King Charles Ⅹ of France in 1829–30.

Cindy Sheehan forces the I.R.S. to blink. A look inside NWTRCC’s latest newsletter. Yesterday’s “Pull the Pork (from the Pentagon)” protests. War tax resisters Francesc García Barberà and Amy Wachspress. And the I.R.S. use of civilian informers.

A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter with information about regional, national, and international war tax resistance gatherings, and news and commentary about war tax resistance.

Miscellanous tax resisters → individual war tax resisters → Dee Logan