New National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Newsletter

There’s a new issue of More Than a Paycheck, NWTRCC’s newsletter. In this issue:

• The lead story concerns Frank Donnelly, a war tax resister from Maine who pled guilty to tax evasion charges and is due to receive prison time. It is rare for a war tax resister to face criminal charges. In this case, Donnelly resisted by working in the underground economy and underreporting his income. The IRS seems to be treating it as an ordinary tax evasion case.
• Some notes on tax law and IRS enforcement policy changes.
• International news including a note on the World Council of Churches policy on war tax resistance, war tax resistance in Canada, and the upcoming International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns in Norway this July.
• Obits for recently-deceased war tax resisters Dennis Brutus, George Willoughby, and Lillian Willoughby.
• An announcement of the upcoming NWTRCC national gathering coming up in May in Tuscon, and a call for nominations to fill positions opening up on the Administrative Committee.
• A report on the first Southeast Gathering of War Tax Resisters held over the New Year holiday.

Some bits and pieces from here and there:

• Upset at government budget-cutting plans that threaten their jobs, Greek tax collectors and customs officers went on strike last Thursday.
• More tax resistance talk in Argentina from farmers who are frustrated with the government’s failure to stimulate grain exports. The Federación Agraria Argentina of Entre Ríos met in Villaguay to discuss their response, and may decide to refuse to pay taxes outright, or to insist on paying them in goods rather than in money. Federación head Alfredo de Angeli confirmed that outright refusal to pay was on the table, though he said that “it would be a lamentable tax rebellion.”