Peasants Refuse to Pay Taxes in Austrian Tyrol
Salzburg, Austria — (AP) — Representatives of peasants’ federations of eastern Tyrol at a meeting here adopted a resolution declaring they would cease payment of all kinds of taxes beginning as a protest against the costly administration of the country.
The peasants said starvation is staring them in the face in the outlook for the coming winter. Their action, they declared, was “a lull before the storm” which would burst with great violence unless the government alters its agricultural policy, reduces the tax burden and fights profiteering.
The Central Federation of Tradesmen denounced taxes, which, they said, were driving some of their number into bankruptcy, and they resolved to join the peasants in a fight for reforms.
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Austria → Tyrol in 1931
