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A free MP3-lecture about war tax resistance, some I.R.S. monkeywrenching, the results of a survey about taxpayer attitudes, and Time Management for Anarchists: The Movie.
Yesterday was my first day as a VITA volunteer this tax season, and the government is $2,314 poorer. Also: a heaping helping of miscellany, including grass roots action against domestic torture enablers, Democratic plans to increase military spending, Homeland Security pork, Possum living, attacks on tax collectors, the Coalition to Get the Stop Funding the War Coalition to Stop Funding the War, federal employees who moonlight as tax evaders, and tax policy by merry men in tights.
An on-line game currency crosses over into Chinese meatspace. Also: the Vermont Republic and the Free State of New Hampshire vie for first state out of the Union honors. And: another “mysterious powder in envelope shuts down I.R.S. processing center” story.
I got another letter from the I.R.S. today asking for that money I refused to give them last April. Also: another “mysterious white powder” incident shuts down an I.R.S. mailroom.
Anti-war actions in the San Francisco area to commemorate the beginning of the seventh year of the Iraq War. Also: collecting rainwater that falls on your own roof may be illegal, an envelope of suspicious powder shuts down an I.R.S. mailroom, the Peace Tax Seven suffer a legal setback, and refuting “the free rider fallacy.”
Not all tax resistance is nonviolent. There are also plenty of examples in which people have taken up arms against the taxing authority, have violently destroyed the apparatus of tax collecting, or have used threats of violence to intimidate or inhibit tax collectors.
NWTRCC’s Ed Hedemann talks about war tax resistance and redirection on GRITtv with Laura Flanders. Also: the joy of teabagging your Congressional representatives. And: tax preparation tips from The Onion.
“The Sufferings of many, for Refuſing to pay the wicked Exactions of the Ceſs, Locality, Fynes &c. Vindicated.” Also: details and registration info about the upcoming NWTRCC national conference. And: A C.I.A. torture manual excerpt. Also: more details about the grow-your-own tobacco movement. And: lets say you get caught mailing fake anthrax to the I.R.S. how much time are you gonna do for that?
Thoreau writes to Emerson about the peace movement of his day. Also: an envelope full of foot powder, sent to an I.R.S. processing facility from a prison zip code, evacuates the building for the afternoon. And: The Nicomachean Ethics shows the seams from where it has been stitched together from older sources.
A populist movement to get people to move their money out of banks and into credit unions has tax resistance implications. Also: I.R.S. workers discover they are very unpopular, cannot show their faces in polite society, and have to be paranoid of every envelope they open.
Come Home, America: the new left/right/libertarian antimilitarist coalition has a homepage. Also: Vaclav Havel on coerced consent, the National Treasury Employees Union and the Internal Revenue Service quake in fear at the prospect of taxpayer retaliation, and more productive prisoner tax fraud: “I’m through with the street crime. I’m strictly white collar from now on. I love the I.R.S.”
Maybe it was the British cops painting swastikas on their helmets and marching through Tel Aviv shouting “Heil Hitler,” but many Jews decided they would rather not pay taxes to the British administration of Palestine. Decades later, the Palestinians feel much the same about the new boss.
Arnold Cuba, an undergrad at the University of Texas, started resisting the federal telephone service excise tax during the Vietnam War, and in 1972 had his VW seized by the I.R.S. to be auctioned off to cover $2.44 in resisted taxes. Also: the greatest value of Wikileaks may be measured not in any specific piece of leaked information, but in the disproportionate damage that leakage in general induces unjust, secretive conspiracies to inflict upon themselves.
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.
Every tax day, Steve Magin visits the I.R.S. offering to pay his taxes in full if they’ll assure him that none of the money will go to pay for war and armaments. Also: a “suspicious powder” incident shuts down the I.R.S. office in Ogden, Utah. And: tobacco smuggling is skyrocketing along with tax rates (who saw that coming?) Also: another dispatch from the liquor tax showdown in Cincinnati in 1884.
Tax resistance in occupied Mexican Texas in 1877. Also: Cindy Sheehan on “frivolous” conscientious objection, more background on the Greek tax rebellion, and Indian farmers using the power of poisonous snakes against a corrupt tax office.
The next NWTRCC national gathering will be in Chicago this May, coinciding with the NATO/G8 summit protests. Also: some facts and graphs about the 2012 U.S. military budget. And: the National Prison Divestment Campaign wants you to make sure your money isn’t invested in mass imprisonment. Also: the I.R.S. gets a turd in the mail.
An update on Vickie Aldrich’s “frivolous filing” case. Also: council tax rebels in Britain, including a group that stormed a tax bankruptcy trial and tried to arrest the judge. And: the I.R.S. facilitates the tax fraud industry by promiscuously distributing taxpayer ID numbers. Also: another “I.R.S. building evacuated due to suspicious package” story.
Reading between the statistical lines to infer a growing underground economy; Congress continues to demonize the I.R.S. for us; that agency is so afraid of bomb threats that it looks suspiciously even on boxes of tax forms; Cypriots are the latest to resist austerity taxes; and A.J. Muste loses a court case asserting constitutional protection for conscientious objection to military taxation in 1961.
While I was busy going through Friends Journal back issues, I didn’t attend much to American tax resistance news in the here-and-now, so I’ll try to give a recap today of some of the interesting items that caught my notice over the last couple of months.
NWTRCC’s fall gathering announced; a report on the BerkShares alternative currency; Robert Fernandes pays his taxes in $1 bills as a protest; lucky duckies are becoming rarer and may have been over-counted in the first place; prohibitionists in Colorado are trying to use taxes to push marijuana back underground; Michael Izbicki shares his decision to begin resisting taxes; and another “suspicious white powder” incident at an I.R.S. facility.
An upcoming google hangout explores how to continue to resist war after the anti-war rally ends. Also: frugal living in the service of philanthropy, more evidence the I.R.S. is falling down on the enforcement job, the tax trouble of bitcoin, and another suspicious package evacuates an I.R.S. building.
Scotland officially throws in the towel and won’t try to collect Thatcher’s Poll Tax from people who refused to pay back in 1989. French tax officials are frightened out of their wits by taxpayer animosity. Greek resistance to the enfia tax grows. And: another “suspicious white powder” incident at an I.R.S. office.
Direct action convicts refuse to pay their fine, results of a tax day “penny poll,” an I.R.S. building threatened by mad Squirrel, and one man’s struggle against a “bachelor tax.”
Today, a series of tax resistance news briefs and links about campaigns and campaigners all around the world, refusing taxes in the service of a variety of causes.
Participants in the 1963 Birmingham Campaign signed a pledge committing them to a daily, constant practice of nonviolent discipline, which was designed to help them transform more than just local public transit. Also: more links of interest, and an Education Act tax resister is released from jail in 1905.
The Guardian gives anti-Trump tax resisters some publicity. Americans are giving up their citizenship in record numbers. Trump’s border wall is just the latest step in the militarization of the border. Another mysterious-white-powder scare shuts an I.R.S. office. And: say, isn’t there a general strike today?
The I.R.S. made fewer property seizures, served fewer levies, and filed fewer liens last year than the year before, continuing a recent trend. Also: another example of a suspicious envelope of white powder causing the evacuation of an I.R.S. building.
See the scripts the I.R.S.’s new private debt collectors will be using. View your I.R.S. account on-line. A look at how Thoreau has aged. A note about a suffragette tax auction. Suspicious packages shut down I.R.S. buildings in Austin and Philadelphia. And the I.R.S. is forced to return hundreds of millions of dollars in ill-gotten gains.
More Thoreau bicentennial notes, including a surprising number in the German press. Also: forty businesses in Italy unite in a tax strike. Another report from the C.P.T.I. gathering. And some advice on keeping your fingers out of I.R.S. bomb threat plots.
A radical paper covers the jailing of Dr. Arthur Evans for contempt of court during the government’s confrontation with his war tax resistance in 1963. Also: another “suspicious package” arrives at an I.R.S. mail room. And: A dramatic increase in the number of Americans failing to pay their quarterly estimated taxes.
The Women’s Tax Resistance League is explained in a lecture by Helen Thornley. Also: persisting in protesting, tax day after tax day. Another suspicious package shuts down another I.R.S. building. Tax strike in North Kivu. Tax resistance urged in Imo, Nigeria. And Australian tax refusers are very likely to come out ahead, even if they are caught and fined and ordered to pay up.
Tax resistance news from Samoa, Greece, the United States, Brittany, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, Zambia, India, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Valencia.
A documentary about war tax resister Larry Bassett, more news of I.R.S. failures, women take over the American military-industrial complex, speed camera destruction proceeds internationally, and more recent news of interest to tax resisters.
The Mennonite Church U.S.A. starts a redirection fund for church-members who are war tax resisters. An international conference on war tax resistance is upcoming in Edinburgh. The human war on traffic ticket robots continues. Facebook bans ads that discourage voting. Expatriate Americans consider renouncing citizenship to avoid tax burdens. Businesses in Pakistan go on strike over sales tax hike. And: mystery substance leads hazmat team to shut down Kansas City I.R.S. building.
The Arumeru tax revolt of 1998 was a rare show of determined people-power in Tanzania (or was it just political elites manipulating popular discontent for their own purposes?). Also: depot blockades in France over fuel tax hike, another call for a tax strike in North Kivu, 17,886 traffic-ticket-generating robots in France attacked by angry drivers, half the cigarettes smoked in New York are brought there by smugglers, and a hazmat scare at an I.R.S. office.
If the I.R.S. files a tax lien against you, prepare for a flood of junk mail. Also: another tax strike in South Kivu, attacks on traffic ticket robots in Italy and France, a hazmat team called to an Alabama I.R.S. office over a leaky international letter, a steadfast council tax rebel in Cornwall, and Crispin Sartwell on the foolishness of trying to tax our way to economic equality.
Even “socially responsible” investment funds that say they screen out investments in warfare often loan money to the Pentagon by investing in treasury bonds. What is a conscientious investor to do? Also: updates on tax resistance in Strathcona and South Kivu, a hazmat team called out to the I.R.S. office, and the human rebellion against traffic ticket robots continues.
I.R.S. says it will delay levying bank accounts into which you deposit stimulus payments or PPP loans (long enough for you to zero them out!). Tax blogger Peter J. Reilly concludes that I.R.S. Collections is broken, and “flat out not paying” has become a workable strategy for taxpayers. There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out. Also: tax protests and strikes in Poland, Italy, South Kivu, and Serbia. And a Nicaraguan columnist wants big business to lead the next tax strike there.
A scholarly take on the tax resistance of Dorothy Day. An upcoming seminar on war tax resistance for beginners. The I.R.S. has its hands full trying to boost its workforce. The founder of Patagonia gives away his business to a non-profit (and avoids a lot of taxes thereby). Huge surge of tax revenue for the U.S. government this year. An I.R.S. building in Memphis appears to have been “swatted.” The human war on roadside traffic ticket robots continues. And, tax strikes as political business-as-usual in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
How to lie with statistics (about the U.S. military budget). Palestinians in East Jerusalem launch a tax strike. Republicans solicit whistleblowers from within the I.R.S. Traffic ticket robots under attack around the world. A new NWTRCC newsletter. A suspicious package shuts down an I.R.S. building. And a new publication outlines the history of attempts to enshrine conscientious objection to military taxation as a legally-respected right.
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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 I.R.S. 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 movement, 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 inadequate 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 I.R.S. for pennies on the dollar” companies, “frivolous filing” overreach from the I.R.S., 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 edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter comes on-line. Also: conscientious tax resistance is mulled over in the Italian press.
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.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with news about war tax resistance and the community of resisters in the United States.
The new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, including a debate on whether or not to pay the “social security tax.” Also: 1984 brought the Friends Journal’s second special issue on war taxes, at a time when even its critics acknowledged war tax resistance as a mainstream practice in the Society of Friends.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Also: an English-language documentary looks at the alternative economy projects surfacing in Spain today.
A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Also: some more background on France’s interesting “bonnets rouges” tax resisters.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with lots of news about war tax resisters and a review of “99 Tactics of Successful Tax Resistance Campaigns”.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Also: the War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund mutual aid program, now under new management, has issued a new appeal. And: you can now view a recording of last week’s Google Hangout on war tax resistance.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter, including articles on tax day actions, the recent national gathering, legal updates, and a close look at the ramifications of the Affordable Care Act for war tax resisters. Also: Rebeccaites tear up a turnpike gate and throw it into the Tivy, on this date in 1843.
A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter gives news, updates, and other useful information from the American war tax resistance movement.
NWTRCC’s newsletter, a new War Tax Talk blog post, and a Ruth Benn radio appearance… the latest news from the American war tax resistance movement.
The latest news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement, including a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter.
War tax resisters and conscientious objectors in the U.S. are featured in a new book. A Spanish group explains war tax resistance in comic book form. Peter Goldberger discerns hope for conscientious objectors to military taxation in the Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” ruling. NWTRCC comes out with guidance on health care and income security for war tax resisters. And there’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out to boot.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter, with articles about the U.S. war tax resistance movement, tax resistance internationally, and the global anti-war and conscientious objection movements.
The provisions of the highway bill authorizing private debt collectors to go after tax debts and allowing the government to revoke or deny passports of people with tax debts are now the law of the land. Also: a new NWTRCC newsletter.
There’s a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter out. Also: an auction of passive resisters’ goods in Bath doubles as a political rally for tax resisters opposed to provisions of the Education Act.
War tax resistance news from the new NWTRCC newsletter, and from war tax resisters in Spain, Canada, and the U.K.
War tax resistance news from the new NWTRCC newsletter. Also: tax resistance played a role in the Mahdist uprising in Egypt, as shown by the 1884 Daily News dispatch.
Read the third issue of the New Escapologist free on-line, including my article “Buying my life back through tax resistance.” Also: a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter hits the stands.
Gloria Steinem says if the government defunds Planned Parenthood, she’ll divert her taxes to the group. Also: a new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with news from the American war tax resistance movement. And: a proposal for a toothless threat for Democrats to refuse to pay taxes if they get Trumped again.
How to topple a dictator with civil resistance. How to create a self-enforcing tax resistance escrow account with blockchain technology. And: a new edition of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee newsletter explores war tax resistance in the age of Trump.
As Tax Day approaches in the United States, war tax resistance activity increases. There are Tax Day protests being organized across the country, there’s a NWTRCC national gathering coming up and a new issue of that organization’s newsletter out. And: Sam Koplinka-Loehr addresses war tax resistance on the Act Out! program.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. Plus: Thoreau is trending. And: how you can help Greeks drink untaxed coffee, how Quakers organized a transatlantic boycott of slave-labor products, Gloria Steinem opens up about her renewed interest in tax resistance, and the I.R.S. gets audited.
There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out, with news of interest to the American war tax resistance community. Also: more I.R.S. follies and failures, the death of the myRA, and Americans are renouncing their citizenship at a record pace this year.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with reports back from the recent national gathering, and other news of interest to war tax resisters. Also: recent tax resistance news from Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out, with news of a new war tax divestment campaign, a tribute to World War I bond slackers, information about the new tax legislation, a profile of Karl Meyer, and more. Also: CODEPINK is also launching a Divest from the War Machine campaign.
A new NWTRCC newsletter previews this year’s Tax Day actions, looks back at the bond slackers of a century ago, and gives us news of interest to war tax resisters. Also: tax resistance continues in Greece. And: a possible new twist to the I.R.S.’s new ability to deny passports to tax delinquents?
People in Nicaragua are refusing to pay taxes and fees to the government as part of a campaign to topple the Ortega-Murillo regime. Also: more attacks on speed cameras, magical thinking about taxes and government spending, voluntary donations to the U.S. government are falling. And: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out, with news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement.
How can individuals resist paying the tariffs that the Trump Administration is slapping on this and that? Also: a new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. And: Is there a war tax resistance “movement”? Also: a look back at the Beit Sahour tax strike.
Who counts as a “citizen”? What responsibilities and privileges attach to “citizenship”? If you want to understand constitutions and states, says Aristotle, start there. Also: a new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out.
There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out, just in time for the tax filing season, with information about the implications of inheritances for war tax resisters, and a look at war tax redirection as a form of slavery reparations. In other news: the fallout from the government “shutdown” continues at the already-stricken I.R.S.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out, with news and outreach tips for the upcoming Tax Day, among other things. Also: the New York Times takes a close look at how “sovereign citizens” use bureaucratic incantations and a curious mythology to milk the I.R.S. And: adding up how much traffic camera destruction has cost the French government in unissued traffic tickets.
The wealthy already pay high tax rates! (Sure, on that portion of income they aren’t hiding off-shore.) Also: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out, attacks on traffic-ticket cameras continue, and a look back at war tax redirection from this date in 1973.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out, more details about anti-abortion tax resister Michael E. Bowman, the I.R.S. is getting more aggressive about revoking passports of tax scofflaws, and attacks on traffic ticket radar robots continue in Europe.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. The I.R.S. tries to put some teeth in the government’s new power to revoke passports from tax scofflaws. Local governments battle I.R.S. over lien-filing fees. And more news about tax resistance and tax resisters.
Hong Kong protesters use clever software to gum up the tax agency. Aristotle’s guide to anarchism. A new NWTRCC newsletter. I.R.S. ramps up surprise in-person visits to tax scofflaws. Paula Rogge on how to defang I.R.S. reprisals against resisters. Lebanese business-owners threaten a tax strike. And the human war on traffic-ticket-generating cameras continues to take robot casualties.
A speed radar replaced by a “rat d’art”, American politicians are perhaps starting to come together on restoring funding for the I.R.S., a men’s magazine calls for a nonpartisan U.S. tax strike, more tax resistance in Kivu, the latest figures on the cost of the war on Iraq, and what you’ll find in the latest NWTRCC newsletter.
Much of the I.R.S. workforce is twiddling their thumbs at home while collecting a paycheck. There’s a new tax strike in Argentina. The 30th anniversary of the British poll tax rebellion is celebrated. American war tax resisters adjust to protest in a time of epidemic. And the war on traffic ticket cameras continues in Europe.
A tax strike in support of #BlackLivesMatter. Ed Agro, co-founder of New England War Tax Resistance, has died. Boosting the Mennonite Church’s war tax alternative fund. Tax resistance against the war on the home front. The human war on robot traffic fine blasters continues. And: a Quaker petition defying the militia exemption tax to the Confederate legislature in Virginia.
David & Jan Hartsough share their war tax resistance letter to the I.R.S., a taxpayer uses the law to fight back against the I.R.S.’s private debt collector deputies, neighbors of a Vancouver homeless encampment threaten tax resistance to pressure the government to help, a new NWTRCC newsletter is out, and the international human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
The I.R.S.’s extra-legal attempt to withhold stimulus payments from prisoners gets slapped down by a federal judge. There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out. The human war on traffic ticket robots continues. And more recent tax resistance links of note.
There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out with updates for American war tax resisters. Also: another tax strike is brewing in South Kivu. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues around the world.
I.R.S. says it will delay levying bank accounts into which you deposit stimulus payments or PPP loans (long enough for you to zero them out!). Tax blogger Peter J. Reilly concludes that I.R.S. Collections is broken, and “flat out not paying” has become a workable strategy for taxpayers. There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out. Also: tax protests and strikes in Poland, Italy, South Kivu, and Serbia. And a Nicaraguan columnist wants big business to lead the next tax strike there.
Long-time war tax resisters Arcadi Oliveres and David Zarembka have died. More Catalan municipalities begin withholding their taxes from Spain. A new NWTRCC newsletter, press release, and upcoming national gathering. A tax strike in North Kivu is boosted by a hartal and sit-ins. A new War Resisters League federal spending pie chart is out. Constitutional challenges to revocations of passports from tax scofflaws look unlikely to succeed, says tax prof. Biden plans to boost the I.R.S. enforcement budget. And: more traffic ticket camera destruction in Europe.
37 businesses in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland signed a letter threatening to stop paying municipal taxes and fees until the city meets its demands. Also: The tax returns of America’s richest people have been leaked, and sure enough they pay paltry income tax rates. And: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out.
Does the U.S. government respect citizens’ right to travel abroad? A record number of rich Americans renounced their citizenship last year. Catalan restaurateurs redirect their taxes for seven years and now are fighting a big fine. The I.R.S. continues to drown in a backlog of last year’s tax forms, and Congress seems in no hurry to bail them out with more funding. And: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out.
The I.R.S. pulls a fast one to evade the statute of limitations. International tax resisters to speak at upcoming NWTRCC conference. New regional war tax resistance group starts in New England. Recap of Women’s Tax Resistance League published. London environmentalists launch tax strike against new incinerator. Biafra Nations League issues tax strike ultimatum. Conscientious objectors to abortion introduce peace-tax-fund-like legislation in Argentina. And more of the latest tax resistance news.
I.R.S. getting desperate as tax season begins with millions of last year’s forms still unprocessed. Meanwhile identity thieves rob the government through I.R.S. back doors and the agency’s attempt to close those doors is becoming a fiasco. Meanwhile: NWTRCC chief interviewed for a podcast, and the group puts out a new newsletter. And: thousands of people are being forbidden from renouncing their U.S. citizenships because embassies won’t process their paperwork. And: the human war against the robot traffic ticket camera hordes continues.
War tax resistance in the U.S. and Spain, a new federal budget pie chart, woes aplenty at the I.R.S., the ongoing human battle against the traffic ticket robots, tax resistance for an independent Catalonia, and dispatches from the tax protester fringe.
Recaps and photos of this year’s “Tax Day” actions. A liberal magazine editor suggests Democrats launch a tax strike if the 2024 election is stolen by fraud. A three-year tax strike by towns on the outskirts of Barcelona. Basque offices of tax disobedience give tutorials in resistance and redirection. It’s no fun to try to get access to your on-line I.R.S. account. U.S. taxpayers paid a lot more income tax last year, and owed a lot more extra than usual when they filed their returns too.
The $80 billion budget boost for the I.R.S. has now been signed into law. What can we expect the agency to do with all this new funding? Also: a new NWTRCC newsletter, “Don’t Pay U.K.” urges Britons to stop paying energy bills, and the ragtag human guerrilla war against the traffic ticket robot hordes continues.
A new NWTRCC newsletter celebrates the group’s 40th birthday. Republicans vow to rescind I.R.S. funding in what I assume to be insincere campaign bluster. Market vendors in Marimanti, Kenya, organize a tax strike. And the human war on roadside traffic ticket robots continues.
I.R.S. continues to struggle to build capability, as Congress claws back some of the money it granted. NWTRCC has a new newsletter out. A nuclear weapons protester goes to jail rather than pay a fine. War tax resister Karl Meyer interviewed. Human rebels continue to take it to the roadside traffic ticket camera robots.
How to lie with statistics (about the U.S. military budget). Palestinians in East Jerusalem launch a tax strike. Republicans solicit whistleblowers from within the I.R.S. Traffic ticket robots under attack around the world. A new NWTRCC newsletter. A suspicious package shuts down an I.R.S. building. And a new publication outlines the history of attempts to enshrine conscientious objection to military taxation as a legally-respected right.
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Will the big Infrastructure Bill give more enforcement power and funding to the I.R.S.? It doesn’t look like any Republicans are willing to go along with that any longer, but that may or may not matter. Also: Gonzo entrepreneur and tax refuser John McAfee hangs himself in a jail cell rather than be extradited to the U.S. on tax evasion charges. And: a letter you can send to Her Majesty’s tax authorities to explain why you’ve joined the Money Rebellion.
Does the U.S. government respect citizens’ right to travel abroad? A record number of rich Americans renounced their citizenship last year. Catalan restaurateurs redirect their taxes for seven years and now are fighting a big fine. The I.R.S. continues to drown in a backlog of last year’s tax forms, and Congress seems in no hurry to bail them out with more funding. And: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out.
The Biden administration would like the I.R.S. to have more visibility into your bank accounts, but the legislative proposal to force banks to report this information may not survive the reconciliation process. Also: a recap of the activism of war tax resisters Eroseana Robinson and Juanita & Wally Nelson. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
The I.R.S. pulls a fast one to evade the statute of limitations. International tax resisters to speak at upcoming NWTRCC conference. New regional war tax resistance group starts in New England. Recap of Women’s Tax Resistance League published. London environmentalists launch tax strike against new incinerator. Biafra Nations League issues tax strike ultimatum. Conscientious objectors to abortion introduce peace-tax-fund-like legislation in Argentina. And more of the latest tax resistance news.
Plans to let the I.R.S. snoop on your bank accounts get more modest. A new guide to healthy eating on a frugal budget. Federal tax revenues are way up this year, thanks to booming fortunes of corporations and the wealthy. And the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against the traffic ticket robot hordes continues.
Congressional Democrats were unable to coalesce around a plan to let the I.R.S. snoop on your bank accounts, so that looks to be off the table for now. But the I.R.S. budget is getting a boost that will erase the cuts from the past decade. Meanwhile the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against traffic ticket robots continues, as shown in this dramatic video.
European tax resisters speak at NWTRCC’s national gathering. Myanmar democracy advocates call on international companies to hold taxes back from the military junta. More tax enforcement money in the proposed infrastructure bill in the U.S. And: the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against traffic ticket robots continues.
Will the new Supreme Court’s increasing deference to religious scruples help conscientious objectors to war taxes to win their cases? A council tax strike protests a planned incinerator in North London. Banks will not have to rat out more of their customers to the I.R.S. after all. And a multi-year property tax strike continues in India’s Electronic City.
A North London Incinerator Council Tax Strike Handbook published. The anticipated I.R.S. funding boost runs into snags in Congress. Highlights from the Taxpayer Advocate’s annual report. New levies, liens, and seizures annual totals released. And: the human war against the robot traffic ticket camera hordes continues.
How tax resisters popularized bitcoin. “Symbolic” tax resisters explain themselves. The I.R.S. continues to take damage, sometimes self-inflicted. And: The international human war against the robot traffic ticket camera hordes continues.
The log jam has broken in the Senate, and now Democrats are advancing a bill that would dramatically increase the I.R.S. budget, particularly its enforcement budget.
The $80 billion budget boost for the I.R.S. has now been signed into law. What can we expect the agency to do with all this new funding? Also: a new NWTRCC newsletter, “Don’t Pay U.K.” urges Britons to stop paying energy bills, and the ragtag human guerrilla war against the traffic ticket robot hordes continues.
A scholarly take on the tax resistance of Dorothy Day. An upcoming seminar on war tax resistance for beginners. The I.R.S. has its hands full trying to boost its workforce. The founder of Patagonia gives away his business to a non-profit (and avoids a lot of taxes thereby). Huge surge of tax revenue for the U.S. government this year. An I.R.S. building in Memphis appears to have been “swatted.” The human war on roadside traffic ticket robots continues. And, tax strikes as political business-as-usual in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A new NWTRCC newsletter celebrates the group’s 40th birthday. Republicans vow to rescind I.R.S. funding in what I assume to be insincere campaign bluster. Market vendors in Marimanti, Kenya, organize a tax strike. And the human war on roadside traffic ticket robots continues.
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London’s “Extinction Rebellion” movement organizes a tax strike for ecological sustainability. Businesses in Pakistan shut their doors in an anti-sales-tax hartal. Human drivers assault traffic ticket robots around the world. And more news about the Mennonite Church USA decision to expand its war tax redirection fund.
London’s “Extinction Rebellion” movement launches its tax strike for ecological sustainability. Speed camera radar outposts destroyed by determined drivers across Europe. Boris Johnson, prime minister, tax resister. Tax strikes threatened in Budalengi, Kenya and Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo to protest the government’s inability to provide basic services.
Extinction Rebellion plans to launch a tax strike in Britain (or maybe that’s just a right-wing fantasy). Are the property tax strikes of the Great Depression due for a revival? The number of Americans renouncing their U.S. citizenship reached an all-time high in the first quarter of this year. And: attacks on traffic ticket robots continue in Europe.
Extinction Rebellion, the climate change activist group from the U.K., is planning what it calls a Money Rebellion that includes tax and debt resistance. They have done their homework, and have come up with some promising methods, but individual tax resistance in the U.K. faces extra challenges.
On Wednesday I will be addressing the Extinction Rebellion group in the U.K. on the subject of Building the Tactical Arsenal of a Successful Tax Resistance Campaign” as they launch their tax strike as part of the #MoneyRebellion. Here’s how you can tune in.
Here is the video of my talk about how tax resistance campaigns can improve their chances for success by choosing tactics well. I gave the talk at the launch of Extinction Rebellion’s “Money Rebellion” campaign, to about 200 engaged viewers, with a Q&A afterwards.
There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out with updates for American war tax resisters. Also: another tax strike is brewing in South Kivu. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues around the world.
The #MoneyRebellion campaign—part of Extinction Rebellion—held a conference call today that covered some important legal information for campaigners in the U.K. who are considering tax and debt resistance. Also: NWTRCC is kicking off 2021 with a series of on-line events.
Tax resistance against the military coup in Myanmar heats up. #MoneyRebellion’s Earth Tax Strike prepares to launch. Don’t be intimidated into silence by frivolous filing penalties. The human war on traffic ticket robots continues. The I.R.S. says it will give you your stimulus money even if you owe taxes, and you now have until May 17 to file your return.
A climate emergency tax strike begins in the U.K., and a seminar about the history of tax objection there. The Biden administration wants banks to report details about everyone’s bank accounts to the I.R.S. A separatist group in Catalonia launches a tax resistance campaign. An upcoming seminar about the legal prospects for conscientious objection to military taxation in the U.S.A. And some other tax resistance activity around the globe.
Extinction Rebellion U.K. puts out a video to announce the launch of its Earth Tax Strike. Also: Peter Goldberger on the legal prospects for conscientious objection to military taxation in the U.S., an interesting hack of California’s tax system, a history of how the I.R.S. got into its current sorry state, prospects for the Biden Administration’s plans to turn that around, a letter from a Basque war tax resister, and more tales from the human war on traffic ticket robots.
Will the big Infrastructure Bill give more enforcement power and funding to the I.R.S.? It doesn’t look like any Republicans are willing to go along with that any longer, but that may or may not matter. Also: Gonzo entrepreneur and tax refuser John McAfee hangs himself in a jail cell rather than be extradited to the U.S. on tax evasion charges. And: a letter you can send to Her Majesty’s tax authorities to explain why you’ve joined the Money Rebellion.
An estimated 61% of U.S. households paid no federal income tax last year. The I.R.S. says it will avoid seizing money from bank accounts that received Advanced Child Tax Credit deposits. A “Council Tax Strike” hits the U.K. The human war on traffic-ticket-issuing robot cameras continues. And: looks back at the tax resistance of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen and of Henry David Thoreau.
The I.R.S. pulls a fast one to evade the statute of limitations. International tax resisters to speak at upcoming NWTRCC conference. New regional war tax resistance group starts in New England. Recap of Women’s Tax Resistance League published. London environmentalists launch tax strike against new incinerator. Biafra Nations League issues tax strike ultimatum. Conscientious objectors to abortion introduce peace-tax-fund-like legislation in Argentina. And more of the latest tax resistance news.
European tax resisters speak at NWTRCC’s national gathering. Myanmar democracy advocates call on international companies to hold taxes back from the military junta. More tax enforcement money in the proposed infrastructure bill in the U.S. And: the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against traffic ticket robots continues.
Will the new Supreme Court’s increasing deference to religious scruples help conscientious objectors to war taxes to win their cases? A council tax strike protests a planned incinerator in North London. Banks will not have to rat out more of their customers to the I.R.S. after all. And a multi-year property tax strike continues in India’s Electronic City.
A North London Incinerator Council Tax Strike Handbook published. The anticipated I.R.S. funding boost runs into snags in Congress. Highlights from the Taxpayer Advocate’s annual report. New levies, liens, and seizures annual totals released. And: the human war against the robot traffic ticket camera hordes continues.
The bad news gets worse for the I.R.S. as the agency is forced to scrap its new identity verification system, and to stop sending notices to taxpayers and tax resisters as it keeps discovering millions more unanswered letters in its ever-growing pile. Oh, and its mail-sorting and -opening machines are broken. Meanwhile: more news from the Edmonton Incinerator tax strike, a utility bill strike in Turkey, and the ongoing human battle against traffic ticket robots.
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance →
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Tax resistance news from the United States, Italy, Argentina, Catalonia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, and Germany.
War tax resister Lindsey Britt on how our taxes form our legacy. America’s wealthy are tax dodging with impunity. A regional Catalan government stops paying taxes to Spain, while Spanish war tax resisters ramp up for tax season. Traffic ticket robots succumb to attacks around the globe. A look back at the anti-poll-tax movement. Upcoming Tax Day actions. And a new tax strike in the D.R. Congo.
Tax resistance in Teen Vogue, redirection ceremonies mark Tax Day in the U.S., an overwhelmed I.R.S. destroys paperwork it is too overwhelmed to process, a new tax strike hits Ituri in the wake of massacres in Djugu, and the human struggle against the robot traffic ticket cameras continues.
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War tax resistance in Spain, and excerpts from an interview with pioneering Spanish conscientious objector Pepe Beúnza.
Sometimes you see tax resistance from someone who just gets fed up with paying too much for too little. There’s no grand ideological or conscientious stand involved, just a tax payer getting sick and tired of it. Also: notes on the underground economy in San Antonio and war tax resistance in Spain.
Eight ways you can personally help to smash the state, from Francois Tremblay. Also: a grand jury subpoenas a newspaper for identifying information about everyone who left comments on their web site about a recent tax protester trial. And: the war tax resistance movement in Spain is very familiar, with arguments on both sides of the issue seeming to be Spanish translations of the same arguments you hear in the U.S.
An update on the number of “lucky duckies” who pay no federal income tax—this year it’s projected to be fully 46.9% of American households. Also: Pablo San José publishes a rejoinder to Ricardo Rodríguez’s critique of tax resistance in Rebelión.
Randall Terry says that Catholics should feel they have the Pope’s permission to refuse to pay taxes that might pay for abortions. Also: Carlos S. Olmo Bau on tax resistance as civil disobedience or conscientious objection.
Arcadi Oliveres promotes war tax resistance in an interview with La Voz de Galicia. Also: there are three things in the soul, and virtue is one of them (did you guess which one?)
I’ve got an article in this month’s Simple Living News on your favorite topic and mine. Also: two articles in the latest Rojo y Negro on war tax resistance in Spain.
News from a war tax resistance and redirection campaign in Spain. Also: American progressives show that they can play the dissent=treason game too.
El País covers the Spanish war tax resistance movement and the philosophy of tax resistance. Also: a tax strike among Puerto Rican merchants in 1932.
An analysis of the strategy of war tax resistance in Spain, ideas for making it more successful, and some answers to criticisms of the tactic.
Kathy Kelly on discerning ourselves from the drones. War Resisters International on war tax resistance in Spain, and an opportunity for resistance-through-over-compliance in the new health care law. Also: supporters of war tax resister Frank Donnelly plan to rally at his sentencing on June 14.
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.
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.
Want to renounce your citizenship? The government taxes that too. And: the war tax resistance movement in the Canary Islands, Joan Baez sings of whiskey rebels and moonshiners, and announcing the November NWTRCC national in Boston in conjunction with the 25th Annual New England Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters this November. Also: see you in August—we’re off to Mexico!
An article from Insumissia last April discussed the war tax resistance movement in Spain and the debate over the war tax resistance campaign there.
NYC anarchists writing letters of support for Carlos Steward. And: Has filing for fraudulent U.S. tax refunds become an overseas growth industry? Also: war tax resisters Michael & Kristine Sonnleitner look at the new year. And: Ecologists in Action promotes war tax resistance in Spain. Also: Isaac Sharpless on Quaker war tax resistance during the American Revolution.
The Xornal de Galicia reports on the current state of the Spanish tax resistance movements. Also: when police kickbacks got out of control in New York City in 1902, the government encouraged businesses to organize to resist the extortion.
News from today’s war tax resistance action by a coalition of Spanish activist groups. Also: a young Karl Meyer goes to jail for handing out leaflets urging war tax resistance in 1960.
Environmental activists and anti-militarists are teaming up for a war tax resistance campaign in Spain.
Larry Rosenwald thinks that American war tax resistance could become a real movement, if only resisters would sign on to a more coherent program. His idea of which program that should be bears some resemblance to one published by some Spanish war tax resisters several years back.
The Spanish poet and essayist Antonio Gala recounted his encounter with a war tax resister in 1992. “What a marvelous power of persuasion the truth has when it is expressed with conviction,” he concluded.
More news from the war tax resistance movement in Spain, which is pointing out that the government’s response to the economic crisis has been austerity for the citizenry and warbucks for the military. Also: a picture of a goat.
The blog “Shareable” publishes some of my thoughts on tax resistance and the advantages of a lower-income lifestyle. Also: Spanish tax resisters hold a weekend conference. And: a clever new idea to take some of the money out of political campaigns.
Catching up on what the war tax resistance movement in Spain is up to lately.
When tax resisters give away their resisted taxes to charitable causes, this defuses critics who claim they are selfish tax evaders, and also forms links between tax resisters and other activist groups.
Ten things I think are probably true concerning ethics. Also: a round-up of recent international tax resistance news.
Updates on the various tax resistance campaigns in Spain. Also: some archival bits about American war tax resistance in the 1980s and 1990s.
While I was busy going through Friends Journal back issues, I didn’t attend much to tax resistance news in the here-and-now, so I’ll try to give a recap today of some of the news about international tax resisters that caught my notice, from the U.K., Spain, Catalonia, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Italy, Greece, and Portugal
War tax resisters in Britain protest the investment of their local taxes in the military industrial complex. And: A chronologically confusing article on the Rebecca Riots from the Monmouthshire Merlin. Also: a student in Spain redirects a cash reward from the government back into the war tax resistance movement.
The latest tax resistance news from Austria, France, Italy, Jordan, and Spain… and another dispatch from the days of the Rebeccaite rebellion.
Another international tax resistance round-up, with news from France, Italy, Ireland, and Spain.
The war tax resistance movement in Spain has been ramping up lately and I have been impressed by the quantity of and the creativity shown in the graphics being used in the campaigns. Here are some examples.
A European tax resistance news round-up with the latest from France, Italy, Greece, Spain, and Austria, (and some late news from Germany).
Tax resistance news from Venice, Catalonia, and the Canary Islands. Also: to what extent were the Rebeccaites encouraged by nonestablishment Christian church leadership?
An international tax resistance news round-up, with notes from Italy, France, Ireland, Spain, and Greece. Also: Rebecca copycat vandals muddy the waters in Wales.
Tax resistance news from Spain, Italy, and the U.S. Also: a look back at past tax resistance campaigns in India and Switzerland.
Tax resistance news from the U.S., Greece, Italy, Ireland, and Spain, and a flashback from the tax resistance in Bermuda’s women’s suffrage movement.
The Greek crisis may be rooted in corrupt military spending profiting the creditor nations. Also: Venezuela cracks down on tax resistance campaigning. And: tax resistance in Puerto Rico, Spain, and Belarus. Also: Rebeccaites on trial at the Pembrokeshire Spring Assizes.
An international tax resistance roundup, with news from Wales, Greece, and Spain, and a flashback to the run on the banks that was part of the revenue denial strategy of the activists pushing for the Reform Act of 1832.
American conservative author Charles Murray calls for mass civil disobedience and mutual insurance against government reprisals. Also: the latest tax resistance news from Spain. And: a mysterious tax resistance campaign in the Dutch East Indies a century ago.
An international tax resistance news roundup, from Lamezia Terme, the Canary Islands, Catalonia, Brittany, Honduras, and Asturias. Also, a flashback to the Poujadist movement in France.
War tax resisters and conscientious objectors in the U.S. are featured in a new book. A Spanish group explains war tax resistance in comic book form. Peter Goldberger discerns hope for conscientious objectors to military taxation in the Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” ruling. NWTRCC comes out with guidance on health care and income security for war tax resisters. And there’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out to boot.
Tax resistance news from Catalonia, the U.K., the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Spain, Greece, and elsewhere.
An international round-up of tax resistance news, from Catalonia, France, Greece, Honduras, Ireland, Spain, and Wales.
The inside scoop on the Spanish war tax resistance movement. Also: did Mark Zuckerberg just screw the military-industrial complex out of billions? And: a new appeal from the War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund. Also: divest from the Pentagon to strike at the world’s biggest fossil fuel burner. And: the war tax boycott wants you to sign on.
Announcing the next NWTRCC national gathering, news from a war tax resistance teach-in in San Diego, a look back at the pioneers of the modern American war tax resistance movement and how war tax resistance featured in the anti-Vietnam War movement, and more news and links of interest to war tax resisters.
War tax resistance news from the new NWTRCC newsletter, and from war tax resisters in Spain, Canada, and the U.K.
A “Golden Rule Tax Disobedience” campaign launches in the U.K. with some similarities to Spain’s “comprehensive disobedience” movement. Also: news and links about tax resistance from Senegal, Spain, Scotland, Romania, France, Washington D.C., Belgium, Germany, Catalonia, and Quebec.
I get another letter from the I.R.S. Also: the number of Americans renouncing their citizenship or residency continues to rise. And: tax day reflections from Bryan Caplan, war tax resistance news from Spain & Catalonia, a war tax redirection ceremony in San Diego, Raul Perez is making a documentary film about his attempt to get U.S. courts to recognize a right to conscientious objection to military spending, and more…
As Tax Day approaches in the United States, war tax resistance activity increases. There are Tax Day protests being organized across the country, there’s a NWTRCC national gathering coming up and a new issue of that organization’s newsletter out. And: Sam Koplinka-Loehr addresses war tax resistance on the Act Out! program.
Recent links concerning tax resistance in the Onondaga Nation, Spain, southwest Oregon, Greece, Italy, and the American gig economy. A tax pro recommends you just hang up on the I.R.S.’s new private debt collectors. U.S. prisoners discuss the American war tax resistance movement. An upcoming documentary about war tax resister Larry Bassett. And: a spurious #NoTaxForBlacks movement rises out of the 4chan muck.
In 1963 the I.R.S. froze the bank account of a pacifist group because two of its employees would not pay war taxes. Also: modern American war tax resisters Don Schrader and Michael McCarthy speak out. And: war tax resisters in Ciudad Real, Spain, hold a rally.
The Pentagon budget will undergo its very first audit after trillions of dollars in unapproved spending are discovered. How much of a tax gap remains in Europe’s VAT? A new Thoreau biography. Greeks fight back against the government utility monopoly. War tax resistance continues to decay in Britain’s Society of Friends. Spanish war tax resisters redirect to help refugees. And: implications of the new American tax law.
War tax resisters demonstrate on Tax Day. Author Alice Walker encourages people to stop paying for war. War tax resisters Daniel Woodham and Aaron Falbel interviewed. A video introduction to Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience.” A rundown of some of the sillier uses of our taxes. A fourth century Christian tax resisting martyr. Addiopizzo brings pizzo-free shopping on-line. And: Spanish war tax resisters redirect their taxes to a school and food pantry.
A call to strengthen tax resistance in Nicaragua, evading tobacco taxes in California, smashing ticket cameras, blue states fighting back against federal taxes, computer security at the I.R.S. is a mess, Catalan war tax resistance grows, a new call for tax resistance in Sri Lanka, and I get another letter from the I.R.S.
Tax resistance news from Samoa, Greece, the United States, Brittany, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, Zambia, India, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Valencia.
How does a culture’s idea of moral behavior shift (and how might your social media habits play a part)? Trump’s tax cheating. International links of interest from France, Argentina, and Spain. Also: If you have a reasonably-arrived-at constitution, does that confer justice on the decisions arrived at legally? Or is justice something that still must be evaluated on a case-by-case basis? Aristotle argues that justice means more than just obedience to the law.
The War Resisters League’s federal budget pie chart has been updated for the proposed 2020 budget. Also: find “Tax Day” actions in the U.S. And: war tax resisters demonstrate in Spain, yellow vests continue to disrupt France, and traffic camera destruction continues worldwide.
War tax resistance news from Canada, the United States, and Spain, and other news about the ongoing collapse of “tax morale” in the United States, cynicism about Republican tax cuts, trouble at the I.R.S., and some results of the attacks on traffic radar cameras in France.
Tax resistance news from France, Catalonia, Spain, the United States, Italy, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia. Tax season in Spain and the United States has led to increased coverage of tax resistance campaigns there in particular.
Everything is a little different this mid-April, but there’s still some tax resistance news of note, from the U.S., Catalonia, Austria, Mexico, and the U.K.
An upcoming Mennonite webinar will cover war tax resistance. War tax resisters in Spain issue an annual movement census. Peter J. Reilly shakes his head and concludes that not paying your taxes is a workable strategy. More attacks on speed cameras in France. And more hints the Democrats are planning to boost the I.R.S.
War tax resister Lindsey Britt on how our taxes form our legacy. America’s wealthy are tax dodging with impunity. A regional Catalan government stops paying taxes to Spain, while Spanish war tax resisters ramp up for tax season. Traffic ticket robots succumb to attacks around the globe. A look back at the anti-poll-tax movement. Upcoming Tax Day actions. And a new tax strike in the D.R. Congo.
The Biden administration plans to beef up the I.R.S. enforcement budget, as the agency struggles to keep up with paperwork and new responsibilities. The I.R.S. commissioner doubles his estimate of the “tax gap” to $1 trillion of evaded taxes per year. War tax resisters in the U.S. and Spain prepare for tax season. Peter Bagge illustrates Henry David Thoreau. And more traffic ticket robots fall to rebel sabotage.
A climate emergency tax strike begins in the U.K., and a seminar about the history of tax objection there. The Biden administration wants banks to report details about everyone’s bank accounts to the I.R.S. A separatist group in Catalonia launches a tax resistance campaign. An upcoming seminar about the legal prospects for conscientious objection to military taxation in the U.S.A. And some other tax resistance activity around the globe.
South Kivu tax strikers force the government to meet their demands, the Global Days of Action on Military Spending conclude on Tax Day in the U.S., restaurants and gyms in Rosario, Argentina launch a tax strike, remembering war tax refuser Eroseanna Robinson, roadblocks in Democratic plans to beef up I.R.S. enforcement powers, NWTRCC holds an on-line national gathering, human attacks on traffic ticket robots continue, and new tax resistance rumblings in South Africa.
Newly-released statistics from the I.R.S. confirm that the number of tax enforcement liens, levies, and seizures plummeted last year to twenty-year lows. Also: hotels in Argentina launch a tax strike, connecting the dots between war tax resisters and the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, unintuitive tax resistance in Ivory Coast, another war tax resistance season peaks in Spain, and the human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
European tax resisters speak at NWTRCC’s national gathering. Myanmar democracy advocates call on international companies to hold taxes back from the military junta. More tax enforcement money in the proposed infrastructure bill in the U.S. And: the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against traffic ticket robots continues.
War tax resistance in the U.S. and Spain, a new federal budget pie chart, woes aplenty at the I.R.S., the ongoing human battle against the traffic ticket robots, tax resistance for an independent Catalonia, and dispatches from the tax protester fringe.
Tax Day protest on Wall Street unites environmental and anti-war resisters. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu keeps up his strike from the dark. Robert McGee releases summary report of cross-cultural studies on tax evasion attitudes. A “failed” tax resister looks back at what went wrong. Comparing W2 and 1099 earnings. And the scrappy human underdogs continue to demolish robot traffic ticket cameras.
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We’re a long way from April 15th, the war tax resistance movement’s traditional fifteen minutes of fame, and yet the news is full of war tax resisters doing their thing.
More tax day news, including “Burma Shave”-style protest signs in Oregon, an interview with NWTRCC coordinator Ruth Benn, and Ashby Crowder reminding taxpayers that conscientious objection isn’t just for those in uniform.
It is going to take a lot of work to convince people that you don’t have to live under the poverty line to live under the tax line—even people in the war tax resistance movement who should know better.
Self-restraint as consent, pre-dawn protests at military processing centers, how to get a conscientious vegetarian to fund your meat habit by keeping empty promises, and how to spend thousands of dollars on coffee without really trying.
More on the I.R.S.’s new W-4 strategy, debates about the size of the tax gap (and some ideas on how to increase it), and the I.R.S. loses in court yet again while trying to close the flat-rate long distance loophole.
War tax resisters Ruth Benn, Jim Allen, Becky Pierce, Jim Stockwell, Peter Smith, Ellyn Stecker, and Susan Quinlan are profiled in newspaper articles about tax resistance.
A Daily Kos contributor reminds liberals that the “power of the purse” doesn’t begin and end with Congress, but with them. Also: Ruth Benn of NWTRCC advises activists who want to take a step beyond marching with signs and lobbying politicians.
The War Resisters League’s annual “pie chart” shows you where your income tax money really goes. Also: Ruth Benn of NWTRCC explains war tax resistance on Ashland, Oregon’s KSKQ.
SmartMoney covers the war tax resistance beat. And: Cindy Sheehan is urging Americans to resist their taxes. Also: I fill my home for free, and some people fill their bellies much the same way. And: if it oinks like a pig and it wallows like a pig it’s probably the latest Iraq War emergency supplemental funding legislation.
War tax resisters hit the radio waves and the newspapers across America as “Tax Day” approaches. Also: the adolescent sophistry of the tax protester set hits The Picket Line’s comment section. And: a review of “Off the Books.”
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.”
Dave Ross recycles bits of my appearance on his radio show for a commentary that has the Freepers screaming. Also: here’s the audio from Ruth Benn’s appearance on the Marc Germain show.
To what extent does paying taxes to the government make you responsible for what the government does? That turns out to be a very hard question. Also: The Money Magazine article I’m in is finally on-line. And: Ruth Benn eulogizes Ralph DiGia. Also: is war tax resistance futile, or scrappy? And: United for Peace & Justice breaks my heart.
Is advocating war tax resistance the same as “promoting tax evasion schemes” and if so, could the government shut down organizations that promote war tax resistance and seize their membership rolls? What about tax resisters’ “alternative funds”? Are they a variety of “warehouse bank” vulnerable to wholesale seizure by the government?
Karl Hess’s tax resistance in Time magazine, Ruth Benn interviewed on Australian radio, and a remarkable proposal from Cato Unbound.
Ruth Benn reports back from the 12th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns in Manchester, England.
Ruth Benn tells us more about the 12th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns, and I reflect on whether war tax resisters have much in common with peace tax fund scheme promoters, or whether we’d be better off doing some outreach to other varieties of tax resister instead.
An American libertarian-oriented tax resistance campaign that calls itself the “Slave Uprising” gets ready to launch. Also: more impressions of the recent international conference on war tax resistance and peace tax campaigns, highlighting the differences between the United States and European countries. And: the Wall Street Journal profiles Gene Sharp, wrist-slaps for murderous soldiers, and the release of the Peace Tax Seven movie.
A brief report from the NWTRCC conference in Eugene, Oregon. Also: Melissa Etheridge joins the emerging tax resistance movement to protest government discrimination against same-sex marriage.
I report back from the NWTRCC conference in Eugene, Oregon. Lots of news about frivolous filing penalties, the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act debate, the aftermath of the recent election, the future of the War Tax Boycott, and much more.
Ruth Benn shares her notes from the recent NWTRCC national gathering. Also: more people pile on the gay rights tax resistance bandwagon. And: Ron Paul salutes tax resisters from within the bowels of the House of Representatives.
If you’re interested in starting a regular regional gathering of war tax resisters in your area, NWTRCC is eager to help, and can help you both with expertise and with seed money.
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 movement, 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 Tax Day round-up: penny polls and other war tax resistance actions, interviews and profiles of war tax resisters, reactions to the “Tea Party” phenomenon, gay and lesbian tax resistance, a conservative call for an anti-war/anti-tax convergence, a columnist notes how easy it is to get away with not filing your taxes, I.R.S. employees pissed off that their boss got away with the sort of tax evasion that would get them fired, contractors in the I.R.S. mail room caught stealing the government’s stolen money, and Joe the Plumber’s 1-900 fair tax trainwreck.
I report back from the Spring NWTRCC national gathering in Virginia.
The most contentious item on the agenda at the NWTRCC Spring national gathering was our organization’s relationship with the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act and with the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, a long-time affiliate of NWTRCC, which promotes the act.
More reports from the national NWTRCC gathering earlier this month. Also: a report on the barter economy, the federal government’s vast borrowing, an update on Charles Merrill’s tax resistance court battle for same-sex marriage rights, and the civil rights movement seen as a successful (nonviolent) revolutionary insurgency.
More “Tax Day” recaps. Also: war tax resister Allen Cooper gets fired by his jingoistic cocaine snorting boss. And: a flashback to Utah Governor J. Bracken Lee’s quixotic tax protest in 1956.
Reports and photos from the opening days of the Spring 2010 NWTRCC national gathering in Tucson, Arizona.
A new issue of “More Than a Paycheck,” NWTRCC’s newsletter, is on-line, including news about penny polls, “settle with the I.R.S. for pennies on the dollar” companies, “frivolous filing” overreach from the I.R.S., 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.
More than fifty war tax resisters from across the country (and a few WTR-curious from the Boston area and elsewhere) gathered at the Cambridge Friends Meeting house last night at the opening session of the joint National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Meeting Fall gathering / 25th annual New England Gathering of War Tax Resisters and Supporters.
Maurice McCrackin fasts while in jail for war tax resistance in 1958. Also: some notes on phone tax resistance from this date in 2005 and 1998.
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.
Notes from the Social Justice Networking panel at the NWTRCC conference earlier this month, resolving a tangle of taxpatriatism, and a look back at the conviction of war tax resister Ellis Rece in 1972.
A guest post from a war tax resister who participated in the Occupy Freedom Plaza event, and some additional comments about the Occupy Wall Street and related protests.
An overview and update on the Greek tax resistance movement from the New York Times. Also: Ed Hedemann and Ruth Benn talk war tax resistance on Cindy Sheehan’s radio show.
A search through the archives for more information about war tax resisters Art Harvey and Elizabeth Gravalos.
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.
Catholic bishops get all bent about being forced to pay for contraceptive-coverage in the health insurance of their employees, and war tax resisters ask “hey, what about us?” Also: resistance to the “Household Tax” in Ireland, and to the many fee hikes in Greece. And: the I.R.S. is getting overwhelmed by a cottage industry of tax fraud via identity theft.
Tax evasion could get you deported… or confined within the borders. Also: updating the war tax resistance bible. And: the rise of popular sociopathic protagonists. Also: Ed Agro on war tax resistance. And: updates on the Irish and Greek anti-austerity tax resistance movements.
Ruth Benn explains war tax resistance on David Swanson’s show. Also: speed camera destruction, paying a traffic ticket with origami, collecting blood in Greece, tax resistance in Indonesia, council tax resister June Farrow gets a finger-wagging, and the U.S. increases its lead as the biggest global arms race dealer.
Some video from the recent NWTRCC national conference. Also: Heinrich Böll refused to pay a tax to the Catholic Church in 1972—a tax that is still causing controversy today, as the German Catholic Church has decided to effectively excommunicate Catholics who refuse to pay their government-mediated church tax. And: a couple of American war tax resisters ran for office—how’d they do?
Some documents from the New England regional war tax resistance gathering concerning whether war tax resistance is a politically potent action. Also: Welsh miners went on strike against the income tax in 1919.
Ruth Benn, Ed Hedemann, and Cindy Sheehan talk war tax resistance this evening. Also: income tax resistance in the campaign for expanded citizenship rights in the Northern Territory of Australia in 1919.
Tomorrow I leave for the 14th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns in Bogotá, Colombia. Expect things to be a little quieter around here for the next month. Also: tax resistance in Catalonia, more on the War Resisters International war tax capitulation, and an update on prisoner tax fraud.
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.
I.R.S. agents are going well beyond the law to police the attitudes and activities of groups applying for tax-exempt status, as recent cases involving anti-abortion groups show.
The new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, including a debate on whether or not to pay the “social security tax.” Also: 1984 brought the Friends Journal’s second special issue on war taxes, at a time when even its critics acknowledged war tax resistance as a mainstream practice in the Society of Friends.
An insider guide to I.R.S. processing codes. Some thirty-year-old punk rock aesthetic art about war taxes. Constitutionalist tax protesters spread to Canada. More tax resistance news from Greece. The I.R.S. throws in the towel on its frivolous filing penalty overreaching. Another government rigs traffic lights to make intersections more dangerous and more profitable. War tax resister media talking points. Ruth Benn reflects on the letters she gets from the I.R.S. And a 1967 wire service report quoting Joan Baez on her war tax resistance.
A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out. Also: some more background on France’s interesting “bonnets rouges” tax resisters.
The 100th anniversary of the Turra Coo. Ruth Benn looks back on the life of New York war tax resister Sallie Marx. Erica Weiland gives some practical year-end war tax resistance advice. The I.R.S. struggles to bring its computer systems out of the punch-card era. And cable operators in India band together and go dark to protest a new entertainment tax.
Tax resistance news from Cyprus and Michoacán, a profile of long-time war tax resister Robin Harper, and some archives from the British poll tax rebellion of the Thatcher years.
American war tax resisters ride the Tax Day media wave, including Erica Weiland, Jack Payden-Travers, William Ruhaak, David Hartsough, Susan Quinlan, and Ruth Benn.
A critical look at Obamacare from a tax resistance perspective, an announcement of a major divestment from U.S. “private” prisons, research into attitudes toward the ethics of tax evasion, and tax resistance news from Zimbabwe, Brittany, Ireland, and Spain.
American war tax resistance news, featuring Ruth Benn’s visit to Milwaukee and some Catholic Worker archives, Juanita Nelson telling her stories, and a profile of S. Brian Willson. Also: is Puerto Rico a workable tax haven for Americans? And: the government sends in the troops to repress Rebecca.
A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter gives news, updates, and other useful information from the American war tax resistance movement.
A report that 20 people were killed and another 10 wounded after refusing to pay a “war tax” to the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. Also: people in Wales air their grievances, and get listened to for a change, thanks to Rebecca.
A paper on discouraging tax evasion may offer hints to those of us trying to promote it. Also: more hints of Northern League tax resistance. And: finally a conservative responds with tax resistance to the “I.R.S. Scandal”. Also: war tax resisters in the recent climate march.
Tax resistance news from the U.S., Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and the U.K.
The latest NWTRCC newsletter is out with reports from the recent national gathering and other news of interest to war tax resisters. Also: there seems to be more than the usual buzz about tax resistance on-line these days.
A pacifist who refused to buy ostensibly voluntary war bonds got a 28-month prison stint in Montana during World War Ⅰ. What would you tell the government about your war tax resistance? Can U.S. war tax resisters be organized? 2015 shaping up to be a banner year for tax evasion. And: a tax strike in Indonesia.
A new issue of the newsletter of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee brings us the latest news about war tax resistance.
Anton Nelson, one of the more obscure members of the early modern American war tax resistance movement. Also: a new NWTRCC video highlights letters from war tax resisters explaining their stands. And: more about the War Resisters League pie chart representing the federal discretionary spending budget.
NWTRCC’s newsletter, a new War Tax Talk blog post, and a Ruth Benn radio appearance… the latest news from the American war tax resistance movement.
War tax resisters like Ruth Benn and Peter Smith take advantage of Tax Day to get the word out. Also: how the Peacemakers, and resisters like Walter Gormly and William C. Davidon did the same in years gone by.
News about American war tax resisters, troubles in the U.S. tax bureaucracy, and tax resistance campaigns in Spain, Israel, England, Hong Kong, and India.
The latest news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement, including a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter.
Some audio and audio/video recordings of presentations and panels from recent NWTRCC national conferences are now on-line. Here’s a sampling.
War tax resisters and conscientious objectors in the U.S. are featured in a new book. A Spanish group explains war tax resistance in comic book form. Peter Goldberger discerns hope for conscientious objectors to military taxation in the Supreme Court’s “Hobby Lobby” ruling. NWTRCC comes out with guidance on health care and income security for war tax resisters. And there’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out to boot.
Ron Paul calls for mass war tax resistance, the Stamp Act Riots turn 250, the tactic of paying your taxes in pennies, ideas for repairing the Peace Tax Fund, remembering how Julian Bond was inspired by Quaker war tax resisters, and a tax resistance struggle in Russian-occupied Abkhazia in 1866.
War tax resistance gatherings in New England and Las Vegas, the impending “shared responsibility” fines of Obamacare, private tax collection agencies are back in the U.S., and the death of “show-me-the-law” tax protester Irwin Schiff.
It’s “Tax Day” in the United States, and American war tax resisters are pressing their cases in the media. Appearances by Barbara & Harold Penner, Linda & Titus Peachey, Berry & Sharon Friesen, Janet & John Stoner, Erica Weiland, Ruth Benn, David Zarembka, Ed Hedemann, and Sue Barnhart, among others.
War tax resistance news from the new NWTRCC newsletter. Also: tax resistance played a role in the Mahdist uprising in Egypt, as shown by the 1884 Daily News dispatch.
A collection of links to news and notes about war tax resistance and other tax resistance campaigns around the world.
Gloria Steinem says if the government defunds Planned Parenthood, she’ll divert her taxes to the group. Also: a new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with news from the American war tax resistance movement. And: a proposal for a toothless threat for Democrats to refuse to pay taxes if they get Trumped again.
The authoritative story about the legal consequences of federal tax noncompliance in the U.S. Plus: a flurry of news stories about war tax resisters, featuring Ed Hedemann, Robert Randall, and Ruth Benn. A boycott is targeting Trump family products. Tax agencies are trying to figure out ways to target bitcoin. And a new tax in Belarus confronts widespread noncompliance.
Some nonviolence-oriented groups have issued a joint call for activists to begin to dip their toes in tax resistance. Also: the Village Voice reports on the emerging anti-Trump tax resistance movement. And: countering journalistic misconceptions about tax resistance.
No, you won’t go to jail if you don’t pay your federal income tax. Here’s a look at the numbers. Also: lots of news about war tax resisters and tax resisters of other sorts as the U.S. tax filing deadline approaches.
A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with reports back from the recent national gathering, and other news of interest to war tax resisters. Also: recent tax resistance news from Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Pentagon budget will undergo its very first audit after trillions of dollars in unapproved spending are discovered. How much of a tax gap remains in Europe’s VAT? A new Thoreau biography. Greeks fight back against the government utility monopoly. War tax resistance continues to decay in Britain’s Society of Friends. Spanish war tax resisters redirect to help refugees. And: implications of the new American tax law.
War tax resistance has potential synergy with other activist concerns. Also: a look back at Priscilla Adams’s Supreme Court petition asserting a legal right to conscientious objection to military taxation in 2000.
How to form a local affinity group of war tax resisters. Also: a dispatch from the No Tax for War in Vietnam Committee of 1965.
The Women’s Tax Resistance League is explained in a lecture by Helen Thornley. Also: persisting in protesting, tax day after tax day. Another suspicious package shuts down another I.R.S. building. Tax strike in North Kivu. Tax resistance urged in Imo, Nigeria. And Australian tax refusers are very likely to come out ahead, even if they are caught and fined and ordered to pay up.
War tax resisters from around the country met in Los Angeles last weekend to discuss strategy and the state of the movement. Also: I get another letter from the I.R.S.
Collective war tax redirection, through alternative funds, became a hot topic of interest in “The Mennonite” in 1989, as two large conferences of Mennonite congregations merged and voted to maintain their policy of not withholding federal taxes from the salaries of war tax resisting employees.
Recent news regarding war tax resistance, tax resistance as practiced around the world, and tax administration follies in the United States.
The gilets jaunes (“yellow vests”) demonstrations continue in France, blocking refineries, ports, and oil depots, and torching toll booths. Also: The siege of the Corner/Kehler home in Colrain is commemorated at a New England war tax resister gathering.
Who counts as a “citizen”? What responsibilities and privileges attach to “citizenship”? If you want to understand constitutions and states, says Aristotle, start there. Also: a new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out.
There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out, just in time for the tax filing season, with information about the implications of inheritances for war tax resisters, and a look at war tax redirection as a form of slavery reparations. In other news: the fallout from the government “shutdown” continues at the already-stricken I.R.S.
The I.R.S. sent me nine envelopes yesterday, one for each tax year they’re pursuing me for. Also: a U.S. anti-abortion tax resister has a court victory, Ruth Benn examines I.R.S. enforcement at a time of agency stress, California conservatives consider a tax strike, traffic ticket camera destruction continues worldwide, and more international tax resistance news.
The I.R.S. has filed another federal tax lien against me. Also: Brexit voters are contemplating tax resistance if Parliament doesn’t deliver what they voted for. And: the new tax law means $259 billion less for the U.S. Treasury this year.
Tax resistance news from France, Catalonia, Spain, the United States, Italy, Germany, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia. Tax season in Spain and the United States has led to increased coverage of tax resistance campaigns there in particular.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out, more details about anti-abortion tax resister Michael E. Bowman, the I.R.S. is getting more aggressive about revoking passports of tax scofflaws, and attacks on traffic ticket radar robots continue in Europe.
Much of the I.R.S. workforce is twiddling their thumbs at home while collecting a paycheck. There’s a new tax strike in Argentina. The 30th anniversary of the British poll tax rebellion is celebrated. American war tax resisters adjust to protest in a time of epidemic. And the war on traffic ticket cameras continues in Europe.
My limerick commentary on current events. Profiles of war tax resisters Don Timmerman, John Woolman, and Ammon Hennacy. Creative ways to exploit I.R.S. paperwork chaos. Traffic ticket robots under attack in Europe. How tax evasion may suddenly balloon. How the “All or Nothing Syndrome” discourages war tax resistance. Americans renounce their citizenship in record numbers. And peace activists who attacked U.S. military planes in Ireland are found not guilty by a sympathetic jury.
There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out with updates for American war tax resisters. Also: another tax strike is brewing in South Kivu. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues around the world.
An Extiction Rebellion tax resister speaks out on The Earth Tax Strike group’s plans. The South Kivu tax strike heats up. Ruth Benn on John-Ed Croft, and Bob Bady on Juanita & Wally Nelson. And the human battle against the traffic ticket robots continues.
South Kivu tax strikers force the government to meet their demands, the Global Days of Action on Military Spending conclude on Tax Day in the U.S., restaurants and gyms in Rosario, Argentina launch a tax strike, remembering war tax refuser Eroseanna Robinson, roadblocks in Democratic plans to beef up I.R.S. enforcement powers, NWTRCC holds an on-line national gathering, human attacks on traffic ticket robots continue, and new tax resistance rumblings in South Africa.
Newly-released statistics from the I.R.S. confirm that the number of tax enforcement liens, levies, and seizures plummeted last year to twenty-year lows. Also: hotels in Argentina launch a tax strike, connecting the dots between war tax resisters and the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, unintuitive tax resistance in Ivory Coast, another war tax resistance season peaks in Spain, and the human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
The I.R.S. pulls a fast one to evade the statute of limitations. International tax resisters to speak at upcoming NWTRCC conference. New regional war tax resistance group starts in New England. Recap of Women’s Tax Resistance League published. London environmentalists launch tax strike against new incinerator. Biafra Nations League issues tax strike ultimatum. Conscientious objectors to abortion introduce peace-tax-fund-like legislation in Argentina. And more of the latest tax resistance news.
War tax resistance in the U.S. and Spain, a new federal budget pie chart, woes aplenty at the I.R.S., the ongoing human battle against the traffic ticket robots, tax resistance for an independent Catalonia, and dispatches from the tax protester fringe.
Tax Day protest on Wall Street unites environmental and anti-war resisters. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu keeps up his strike from the dark. Robert McGee releases summary report of cross-cultural studies on tax evasion attitudes. A “failed” tax resister looks back at what went wrong. Comparing W2 and 1099 earnings. And the scrappy human underdogs continue to demolish robot traffic ticket cameras.
Recaps and photos of this year’s “Tax Day” actions. A liberal magazine editor suggests Democrats launch a tax strike if the 2024 election is stolen by fraud. A three-year tax strike by towns on the outskirts of Barcelona. Basque offices of tax disobedience give tutorials in resistance and redirection. It’s no fun to try to get access to your on-line I.R.S. account. U.S. taxpayers paid a lot more income tax last year, and owed a lot more extra than usual when they filed their returns too.
In the early 2000s, American war tax resisters tried to retune and revitalize a waning war tax resistance movement as the disastrous U.S. terror wars unfolded.
“Let them march all they want, as long as they pay their taxes.” Did Alexander Haig really say that? Nobody seems to know for sure, but it seems to be one of those quotes that’s “too good to check.” Also: NWTRCC’s national gathering is coming up soon. The threat of “taxpayer-funded abortion” motivates pro-life voters. The numbers of American tax-filers who pay no income tax predicted to fall back to pre-pandemic levels. And the human war on roadside traffic ticket robots continues.
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