Miscellaneous tax resisters → individual war tax resisters → Ilene Roizman

There’s a new NWTRCC newsletter out, with content including:

• a recap of this year’s “Tax Day” events
• remembering the violent threats against “bond slackers” in the U.S. 100 years ago
• notes on war tax resistance activism including outreach to young students, the Poor People’s Campaign, and other upcoming outreach opportunities
• a report back from the recent NWTRCC national gathering
• Lincoln Rice takes the helm as NWTRCC’s coordinator
• Ilene Roizman tells us of her recent decision to begin to resist and redirect her taxes.

At the NWTRCC blog, war tax resister Ilene Roizman discusses her struggles in getting health insurance as a self-employed tax resister who does not file tax returns.

In the Obamacare era, health insurance is fabulously expensive, but if your income is low you can qualify for tax credits that take away some of the bite. The catch is that in order to qualify for the credits, you have to file your taxes.

Roizman discusses the trade-offs of various approaches to solving this dilemma, and shares her thought processes (and the help she got from the NWTRCC community) as she came up with a solution that works for her.

Some links from here and there:

• There’s a new issue of NWTRCC’s newsletter out, with content including:
  • a recap of the on-line lecture on tax resistance tactics I gave for the #MoneyRebellion group of environmental activists from the U.K.
  • an overview of the last NWTRCC national conference
  • counselors’ notes, including:
    • The IRS is still (improperly) threatening people with frivolous filing penalties if they send letters of protest along with their tax returns.
    • The new QR-codes that the IRS has started to include on past-due notices present a possible security issue for some tax resisters.
    • An appeals court affirmed that you cannot discharge federal tax debt in bankruptcy if you have willfully “attempted in any manner to evade or defeat” the tax.
  • Ruth Benn shares her thoughts on how “all-or-nothing syndrome” keeps some people from considering resistance, and Ilene Roizman shares her struggle to purchase health insurance as a self-employed non-filer (both of these have appeared previously on NWTRCC’s blog).
• Traffic ticket robots continue to succumb to attacks of enraged motorists, lately in Canada, France, Reunion, & Germany, and France, Reunion, Guadeloupe, & Qatar.
• Meanwhile, I’m starting to think it would be more newsworthy if there weren’t another tax strike brewing in South Kivu.