It’s time for another brief international tax resistance round-up:
- Catalan businesses and local governments are cooperating to figure out ways to redirect federal business taxes into the local Catalan treasury. Currently, the Catalan authorities simply forward such taxes along to the central government, so this is a symbolic gesture, but, as one of the resisters put it, “if we all did this, the Catalan government would suddenly have the power to decide not to pay taxes to Madrid. That’s one of our goals.”
- Traders in Pune, India have balked at registering for a new Local Body Tax, and have conducted multi-day strikes to protest the tax and government raids on noncompliant businesses
- Residents of the Solus Estate in the Colchester district of Essex County, England pay their full county tax even though they independently maintain their own roads and sidewalks. They’ve had about enough of that, and are threatening a tax strike.
