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The I.R.S. brags that it is auditing more people this year than before, but a look at the numbers shows that most of this increase comes from small businesses and people making under $25,000 a year — millionaires seem nigh invulnerable. Also: war tax resistance propaganda posters hit the streets of San Francisco.

A wonderful how-to and why-to book on “Possum Living” by a 19-year-old who lives on the cheap with her father. Also: a letter from the Women’s Tax Resistance League of 1913.

An Oakland, California hardware store owner refuses to collect or remit sales tax in protest against the government’s failure to protect his community against violent crime. Also: a look at the I.R.S. enforcement numbers for last year. And: the “Death and Taxes” poster illustrating the 2008 U.S. Federal Budget is released.

While I was away: next week’s blockade of the I.R.S. headquarters, the anti-pizzo movement in Palermo, the death of long-time war tax resister Joanna Karl, tax resistance in Tanzania and in Maine, what the new economic stimulus plan means to low-income tax resisters in the U.S., a new war tax resistance poster, an argument that tax resistance may be a legal obligation in the U.S., war tax resistance as part of Christian conscientious objection, and how to be a foodie without breaking the bank.

Some news from the war tax resistance movement in Spain. Also, the former president of Catalonia says legal channels for improving the political status of Catalonia are a waste of time, so it’s time for a mass tax resistance campaign.

The Women’s Tax Resistance League produced a series of posters to propagandize their cause. They also came out in force at the unveiling of a new statue of John Hampden at Aylesbury.

Kate Harvey’s trial for tax resistance in 1913. “I am not resisting the Act as an Act. If it had come straight down from heaven I should resist it just the same. I am doing what every business man throughout the country does as a matter of course — I refuse to pay for goods which I cannot choose.”

What of the federal excise tax(es) on air travel? Especially in this travel-heavy holiday season, is there anything we can do to resist them? Also: a vintage war tax resistance poster, and a way the public can rate and view the ratings of I.R.S. personnel.