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- How do these tax resister escrow/trust funds work? And what does the I.R.S. think of them? Also: an illustrated guide to brewing your first batch of homebrew (and avoiding the federal excise tax on beer).
- War tax resisters Anna Aschenbach and Joanne Sheehan in the news. Also: Northern California war tax resisters redirect money from the Pentagon to community needs. And: Lawrence Rosenwald on unsentimental pacifism, tax resistance, and the seeds of war.
- War tax resisters Janine & Ben Martin Horst, Bryan Nelson and Ed Hedemann in the news. Also: a report on Dan Jenkins’s attempt to get the courts to recognize conscientious objection to military taxation. And: more than half of Americans receive significant income from government programs, and one-in-five work at a government job. Also: the People’s Life Fund of Northern California redirects thousands of federal tax dollars to community and activist organizations.
- The People’s Life Fund redirects $10,000 of war tax resisters’ money from the federal government to local charities. Also: the I.R.S. oversight board thinks the agency should use a M.A.D.D. or M.P.A.A.-like propaganda campaign to get people to comply with taxation. And Jeff Knaebel suggests tax resistance as a way of reclaiming your right to pursue an ethical life.
- War tax resisters bask in the news media spotlight on Tax Day, including coverage from Portland, Oregon; Berkeley, California; the Lower Hudson Valley of New York; Vermont; and St. Louis, Missouri.
- Even more Tax Day aftermath, with reports from Eugene, Oregon; Berkeley, California; Rockland, New York; Glynn County, Georgia; Austin, Texas; New York City; and Manchester, New Hampshire.
- Examples of twenty-two ways tax resisters and their sympathizers have organized to support tax resisters and tax resistance campaigns.
- I report back from NWTRCC’s Spring Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, and from the 2008 War Tax Boycott redirection ceremony.
- Redirection — it’s about more than tax dollars. Clare Hanrahan writes, “I redirect each time I give my time and energy in support of good work within my community.”
- Google has added more text-searchable newspaper archives to the Web, and I go hunting for more information on the history of tax resistance.
- 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.
- 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.
- In addition to the NWTRCC national coming up in November, there’s a New England regional gathering in October and a south-east gathering in January. Also: one war tax resister decides to move on to other tactics, while another activist takes his place as a new resister and war tax resistance organizer.
- Some notes and photos from the first full day of the NWTRCC National Gathering in Cleveland, Ohio. Also: Aristotle continues to try to understand self-control and its absence, and contrasts his view with that of Socrates. Does this have anything to do with hypocrisy?
- If your progressive friends aren’t war tax resisters yet, this Daily Kos post and Chris Hedges column might push them over the edge. Also: the Mennonite Central Committee sets up a fund for people who want to redirect their tax dollars toward undoing some of the harm in Afghanistan. And: another flashback to the beginnings of the modern American war tax resistance movement.
- News from a war tax resistance and redirection campaign in Spain. Also: American progressives show that they can play the dissent=treason game too.
- It’s “tax day” in the U.S. and there’s plenty going on, including war tax resisters in my area redirecting $20,000 to charity. Also: The last tax resistance crusade of Vivien Kellems.
- Several examples of organized war tax resistance and redirection among Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers in the early 1980s.
- 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.
- 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.
- The international history of tax resistance, the price of resisting the communist rebel war tax in the Phillipines, constitutionalist tax protesters in England storm a courtroom and arrest a judge, war tax resister Lamar Williamson, and some truth in recruiting for a change. Also: a suffragist redirects her investment tax money directly to the Women’s Freedom League.
- A profile of Nashua-area war tax resisters Francine Wall and Ruth McKay. Also: “An act to compel the Quakers to perform military service, or to pay money in lieu thereof, might properly be entitled, ‘An act for the extinction of the Religious Society of Friends,’” wrote the Friends’ Review in 1869.
- I reprint a poem to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the beginning of the British poll tax rebellion. Also: war tax resisters are giving away the money they’ve been withholding from the tax collector.
- A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter is on-line. Also: bars in Lansing, Michigan fight back against a smoking ban with a tax resistance campaign; a profile of resister Martha Graber; and more “suspicious packages” force evacuations at I.R.S. processing centers.
- Ken Knudson pioneered W-4 resistance against the Vietnam War. Here is the letter he sent to the I.R.S. and news reports from the Libertarian Forum and the Associated Press.
- Last Tuesday, Steven Short aired a piece about Northern California War Tax Resistance on KALW News’s “Crosscurrents” program that featured brief interviews with Susan Quinlan, Kathy Labriola, and Erica Weiland.
- An article from an April 1974 D.C. Gazette gives a snapshot of the American war tax resistance movement of the mid-1970s.
- When the home and blueberry field of Art Harvey and Elizabeth Gravalos went on the auction block after they refused to pay war taxes. Also: an Iowa war tax resistance group put their redirected taxes to good use: funding college scholarships for students who had been denied federal aid for their refusal to register for the draft.
- The Yonkers Herald Statesman profiled war tax resister Connie Hogarth on this date in 1983. I’ve only found fragments of the article on-line, but here is a brief excerpt about her tax resistance.
- 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.
- NWTRCC announces the crop of Tax Day protest actions for this year. Also: Catholic war veterans launch a tax strike in New York City in 1938 to protest a Communist in the local government.
- A new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out, with news about war tax resistance and the community of resisters in the United States.
- I was a little too young to be much of an observer of the political scene, but I remember 1976 as being something of an orgy of innocent patriotism. The Friends Journal wasn’t quite so willing to get with the star-spangled program. In particular, it intensified its coverage of war tax resistance during the bicentennial year.
- There was hardly an issue of the Friends Journal in 1978 that did not at least mention war tax resistance, and some issues covered the topic in depth.
- An interesting hybrid of war tax resisters and Occupy-style critics of state capitalism has developed in Spain in recent years: promoting the illegal redirection of taxes from the State to independently-managed grassroots projects. Here is a translation of some of their latest manifesto.
- 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”.
- I contributed an article on the American war tax resistance movement to “RADI.MS” — a new, internationally-oriented media platform organized by the “comprehensive disobedience” movement in Spain.
- Philadelphia war tax resisters redirected their taxes by handing out dimes for bus fare in 1971. Also: Rebecca wins concessions from the Neath Turnpike Trust. And: tax refusal by ranchers in “Indian Territory” in 1899.
- Jason Robert Mizula tells the I.R.S. why they shouldn’t expect a check from him this year. Also: toll-gate destruction in Bangalore. And: a bit more about poll tax refuser J.J. Keon.
- Excerpts from the new edition of the “Handbook of Economic Disobedience,” from the tax rebels of the solidarity economy in Spain. Also: a succinct summary of the preparations for the French wine region tax strike of 1907.
- 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. Also: tax resistance played a role in the Mahdist uprising in Egypt, as shown by the 1884 Daily News dispatch.
- Ruth Anne Friesen is one of the American war tax resisters who redirected tens of thousands of dollars in taxes from the Pentagon to worthy charities.
- 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.
- Workers in the Codevi in Ounaminthe, Haiti strike to protest a new wage tax. U.S. war tax resisters organize a tax redirection to resistance organizations. The Catalan independence movement lays the groundwork for a mass tax strike. The French government surveys the damage from the successful bonnets rouges movement. And ROAR Magazine looks at the Irish water charge insurgency.
- On this date in 1972, a letter to the editor from two war tax resisters appeared, explaining how they were redirecting their taxes from the Vietnam War to more worthy charities.
- 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.
- I got away with it. My 2008 federal tax debt has officially fallen off of the ten-year statute of limitations and the I.R.S. can no longer pursue me for it. Here’s how I plan to celebrate.
- War tax resisters from the Basque country have been offering one-on-one tax resistance counseling to new resisters as they fill out their tax returns. But as the movement has become more popular, they have had to also add group counseling sessions.
- Here are some more excerpts from issues of the Friends Bulletin from the 2000s, including a thoughtful piece by Bob Runyan on the implications of taxpaying and tax resistance.
- “Feminist” tax resistance, a variant on war tax resistance, had a moment in the spotlight in the early 1980s, as seen in this article from “Heresies” magazine.
- Things were really heating up by 1972, and regular coverage of war tax resistance and of Mennonite war tax resisters in “The Mennonite” reflected this. But the majority of Mennonites were not yet on board.
- Debate about whether, and how, to resist war taxes continued in the pages of “The Mennonite” in 1981, a proposal to create a “sabbatical service” program for war tax resisters was floated, and the General Conference Mennonite Church prepared a lawsuit against the I.R.S.
- Before it was even really out of the gate, the General Conference Mennonite Church’s suit against the I.R.S., which was intended to free it from having to withhold war taxes from its employees, was crushed.
- In 1983 the General Conference Mennonite Church regrouped. Having failed via lawsuit and lobbying to get permission to stop withholding taxes from the paychecks of their war tax resisting employees, they decided to go the civil disobedience route.
- 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.
- As the first decade of the new millennium came to a close, some Mennonites wondered whether the Mennonite Church had come to be “at peace with war.” Certainly they seemed to largely be at peace with war taxes, with some notable exceptions.
- 1981 was marked by heated debate in the pages of “Gospel Herald” about war tax resistance, while Mennonite Church institutions continued to struggle with whether or how to take a stand.
- In 1987, it seemed to me I started to see a lot more content in the ”Gospel Herald” bemoaning how “our tax dollars” were financing this or that government-sponsored horror without going one step further and suggesting how people could stop their taxes, at least, from being spent in that way.
- In 1988 the Mennonite Church danced right up to the brink of committing to corporate war tax resistance, as other church bodies around them considered their own similar actions. But the anti-resistance conservatives were getting restless.
- In 1989 the Mennonite Church General Assembly would hold a long-overdue vote on whether or not to support war tax resistance as an institution. Also: on this date in 1971, a “War Tax Resistance Caravan” started out on a bicycle tour of New England.
- After the Mennonite Church General Assembly voted to begin war tax resistance as a body, the general board of the Mennonite Church tried to come up with ways to avoid implementing that decision. The 1990–91 issues of “Gospel Herald” tell some of the tale.
- “Gospel Herald” ceased publication as an independent magazine at the beginning of 1998, merging with “The Mennonite” as the Mennonite Church merged with the General Conference Mennonite Church. Today I’ll show some of the final mentions of tax resistance in the magazine before the merger.
- 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.
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- Saturday was my first day as a VITA volunteer, and Sunday I was part of a war tax resistance introductory workshop.
- A round-up of news on the torture policy, stupid budget tricks, and adventures in activism.
- A conservative student journalist files a report on a Northern California War Tax Resistance workshop. Also: there are a lot of “people power” movements making change in the world today, so why does the mainstream media only seem to report on the ones whose goals coincide with U.S. foreign policy ambitions?
- I saw evidence of fervent interest in tax resistance yesterday at a workshop in San Francisco, and was interviewed for an upcoming war tax resistance documentary. Also: Colorado Springs war tax resisters are in the news again. And: People are more likely to behave unethically if you tell them that they don’t have free will. Also: About the cooperative, bottom-up, long-distance money exchange method called Hawala. And: the entourage of our pampered god-emperor.
- Some updated statistics on how many people aren’t paying their taxes and what the I.R.S. is doing about it. Also: you’re invited to free introductory workshops on war tax resistance this weekend in San Francisco.
- When you’re trying to expand the ranks of tax resisters in your campaign, you need good educational tools. If you can be clear, thorough, and credible in demonstrating how to resist and what the consequences are likely to be, you can eliminate the biggest obstacle to the growth of your campaign. Today I’ll give a few examples of how tax resistance campaigns have dispelled ignorance about tax resistance.
- A “99 Tactics” teach-in is coming up in San Diego — one of the “Days of War Tax Action 2016” events. Also: some war tax resistance artifacts, Steve Russell on creative war tax resistance tactics, and a passive resistance league formed in St. Ives.
- Register to participate in a free introductory webinar about war tax resistance that I’m conducting tomorrow. Also: the New Republic looks back fondly on the war tax resisters of Colrain, Massachusetts. The I.R.S. budget looks like it’s due for another slashing. Swedes screw their government by overpaying their taxes. And a peek back at Winifred Patch’s tax resistance for women’s suffrage a century ago.
- I’m conducting a free Tax Resistance 101 webinar this Sunday. Here’s how to attend. Also: news about tax resisters and tax resistance actions is flying across the wires as Tax Day passes in the United States.
- The War Tax Resistance 101 webinar I led last month has been edited into a YouTube video. Also: some war tax resistance links, more on tipping in cash to help others evade taxes, and the prospects for tax resistance to fight corruption in South Africa.
- Miscellaneous tax resisters →
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- War tax resisters Matthew Hoh, Sam Koplinka-Loehr, Susan Lee Barton, Paula Rogge, and Bill Ramsey make a splash on Tax Day. Also: how the Peacemakers, and resisters like Patricia & Roy Kepler, David Gale, Maurice McCrackin, and Theodore Olson did so on Tax Days past.
- Private collection agencies will begin to go after languishing I.R.S. tax cases next Spring. Also: a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter is out.
- A tax resistance news roundup, with items from Italy, the U.S., France, the U.K., and Greece.
- 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.
- The War Tax Resistance 101 webinar I led last month has been edited into a YouTube video. Also: some war tax resistance links, more on tipping in cash to help others evade taxes, and the prospects for tax resistance to fight corruption in South Africa.
- A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. Also: After Equifax leaked information on hundreds of millions of Americans to cybercriminals, the I.R.S. gave the company a multimillion-dollar, no-bid fraud prevention contract. And: will the growing number of anti-Trump tax resisters coalesce into an organized movement?
- Miscellaneous tax resisters →
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Erica Leigh (Weiland)
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- 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.
- 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.
- Some notes and photos from the first full day of the NWTRCC National Gathering in Cleveland, Ohio. Also: Aristotle continues to try to understand self-control and its absence, and contrasts his view with that of Socrates. Does this have anything to do with hypocrisy?
- Reports and photos from the opening days of the Spring 2010 NWTRCC national gathering in Tucson, Arizona.
- 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.
- Brief notes from the business meeting of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee. Also: another data point on the mystery of how American Quaker war tax resistance died out in the late 19th century.
- 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.
- NWTRCC has posted some more notes from last month’s National Gathering in Oakland/Berkeley.
- Last Tuesday, Steven Short aired a piece about Northern California War Tax Resistance on KALW News’s “Crosscurrents” program that featured brief interviews with Susan Quinlan, Kathy Labriola, and Erica Weiland.
- Several war tax resisters were arrested in a symbolic civil disobedience action targeting the nation’s first new nuclear weapons manufacturing plant in decades, in Kansas City, where NWTRCC was holding its Fall 2011 national gathering. Also: the underground economy, a.k.a. System D, is growing in size and importance internationally.
- 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 Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council released its annual report today, confirming that recent I.R.S. budget slashing “undermines the voluntary tax system, reduces government revenues, and promotes the underground economy.” Also: some news starts to trickle out from the NWTRCC national gathering earlier this month.
- 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 Mexico, France, Tunisia, and Greece. Also: how do tax resisters interact with the I.R.S.? And: are citizens of countries that commit war crimes legally obligated to stop paying taxes?
- War tax resistance news from the U.S., American tax law news, tax resistance news from Spain, France, Greece, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, and the Isle of Man, and a couple of looks back at the poll tax resistance campaign in Britain.
- Friends Journal reviews “American Quaker War Tax Resistance.” Also: current war tax resistance news, including mentions of American war tax resisters Susan Cundiff, Peg Morton, Joseph Olejak, and Erica Weiland.
- Erica Weiland summarizes her keynote address on Economic Disobedience and War Tax Resistance. Also: some more information from the Spanish economic disobedience movement. And: exploring the theory that the Rebeccaite tollbooth attacks were synchronized with moon phases.
- 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 report back from the Spring 2014 NWTRCC National Gathering which was held in San Diego, California, last weekend.
- A photo from a 1914 tax auction protested by the Women’s Tax Resistance League. Also: Erica Weiland recaps the recent NWTRCC national gathering. And: a look back at the energetic war tax resister and anti-war activist Robert Anthony… and his nemesis.
- I contributed an article on the American war tax resistance movement to “RADI.MS” — a new, internationally-oriented media platform organized by the “comprehensive disobedience” movement in Spain.
- Fewest I.R.S. enforcement officers since 1970s. Cost of renouncing U.S. citizenship goes up more than 500%. War tax resisters to gather in New England. ⅓ of filers will owe Obamacare overpayments in April. Banks liable if they fail to freeze levied accounts quickly. War tax resister at Seattle Anarchist Bookfair. New Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns released on-line.
- A new edition of NWTRCC’s newsletter gives news, updates, and other useful information from the American war tax resistance movement. Also: Rebecca still seems undeterred.
- Reports from the workshops and the keynote speech at the National Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee’s national gathering in Richmond, Indiana.
- Notes from war tax resisters Erica Weiland, Peg Morton, John Lindsay-Poland, Frances Crowe, Joseph Olejak, and Henry Braun. Also: some news briefs of interest to tax resisters.
- 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.
- News briefs of interest to tax resisters, from the U.S., Hong Kong, Ireland, Spain, and France. Did you know the I.R.S. accesses the Department of Homeland Security’s database of everywhere you travel? They won’t admit it, but it’s true.
- Practical end-of-year war tax resistance tips, another nail in the French “écotaxe” coffin, remembering the “Christmas Truce,” and tax resistance during the Russian Revolution of 1905.
- 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.
- Is war tax resistance elitist? Got any protest plans for Tax Day? Congress denounces black I.R.S. kettle. Colombia court protects conscientious objectors. New Mexico sheriff stands down I.R.S. and federal marshals attempting property seizure. Al Sharpton tries for tax evader hall-of-fame. And: a record number of Americans renounced their citizenship last year.
- Erica Weiland talks with Shane Claiborne. Irish water tax resistance. Distinguishing tax evaders, protesters, and resisters. And: eavesdropping on I.R.S. identity theft scammers as they plot techniques to evade agency countermeasures.
- 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.
- The latest on I.R.S. blundering, and some news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement. Also: looking in on a property tax strike in Denver in 1896.
- Details from the case of a war tax resister whose tax debt passed beyond the statute of limitations and forever out of the grasp of the I.R.S. Also: notes about war tax resisters Eldon Comfort and Maurice McCracken. And: might a guilty taxpayer try to pay compensation to those hurt by taxpayer dollars? Also: Quaker organizations that ask the government to redirect military spending to good causes are missing the point. And: a note about the huge property tax strike in Chicago during the Great Depression.
- War tax resisters reflect on the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japanese cities. Also: what if conscientious objectors’ taxes could play for something good, like the U.S. Institute of Peace? And: a 1966 declaration supporting war tax resistance from the New York Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends.
- Private debt collectors may go after federal tax debts again and people behind on their taxes may have their passports revoked — two surprises tucked into the new Highway Bill. Also: Erica Weiland on the latest NWTRCC national gathering, a profile of tax resisting superlawyer Tony Serra, and another look at the Hobby Lobby decision and conscientious objection to military taxation.
- Remembering war tax resister Peg Morton. Also: a closer look at the Boston Tea Party, new restrictions on the freedom to travel, socially responsible companies and taxes, and I.R.S. follies of various sorts. And: an undertaker strike in Valladolid in response to a hearse tax.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.
- War tax resisters to meet in Massachusetts in October. 27% of Americans pay no income or payroll tax. Separatists in Trieste launch a tax strike. An Argentine priest leads a road toll rebellion. A college student invents a chatbot that overturns $4 million in parking tickets. The I.R.S. continues to get spanked for civil forfeiture abuse. Bitcoins may be the next super tax haven. Another irate taxpayer pays his bill with bags of low-denomination money. And more news besides.
- 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.
- Rising tax resistance sentiment in the anti-Trump movement, behavioral science lessons to help erode tax compliance, the tactic of paying taxes in pennies, and more news of tax resistance from around the world.
- 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?
- Eight letters from the I.R.S. today as my tax resistance approaches two important milestones. Also: a war tax resistance concert in Maine, Gloria Steinem doubles down on tax resistance as a tactic for overturning Republican budget priorities, war tax resisters who have successfully used the Fifth Amendment in their battles with the government, and U.S. drone resisters convince a jury they were acting lawfully.
- My local newsweekly covers my tax resistance. Also: a new source of data on government taxing and spending; NWTRCC recaps tax resistance season; the Satyagraha Foundation continues its tax resistance series; Susan Lee Barton, Mary & Peter Sprunger-Froese, and Erica Weiland opine on war tax resistance; a majority of Americans feel the federal tax system is unfair; new techniques in paying-under-protest and facilitating the tax evasion of others; and the Peace Tax Fund Act makes another quixotic run at Congress.
- 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.
- The I.R.S. sent me a new sort of letter today telling me that my account “has been assigned for enforcement action.” Precedent suggests that they may now ramp up their attempts to find assets to seize.
- Congress temporarily lifts limits on how much you can deduct certain charitable contributions. The crackdown on refugees and immigrants is war by other means, and a legitimate target for war tax resisters, says Erica Leigh. Also: Tax resistance breaks out in India and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Equifax data leak means more nightmares ahead for the I.R.S., and increasing the salience of taxes to fuel opposition to them.
- A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. Also: After Equifax leaked information on hundreds of millions of Americans to cybercriminals, the I.R.S. gave the company a multimillion-dollar, no-bid fraud prevention contract. And: will the growing number of anti-Trump tax resisters coalesce into an organized movement?
- Two would-be saboteurs of fighter jets acquitted by using the necessity defense in Britain, and meanwhile prosecutors in the U.S. are also running into resistance. Also: I.R.S. continues to rehire problem employees. Should the U.S. war tax resistance movement widen its focus to include prison divestment? And when Jesus said to render unto Caesar, he didn’t stop there.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tax resistance news from Samoa, Greece, the United States, Brittany, Saudi Arabia, France, Italy, Zambia, India, Nicaragua, Uganda, and Valencia.
- 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.
- Recent news regarding war tax resistance, tax resistance as practiced around the world, and tax administration follies in the United States.
- 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.
