In other recent tax resistance news…
- The government of Thailand is cracking down on protesters there and threatening protest supporters. The excuse it is using is that protest leaders gave a “speech urging citizens to go on strike and resist paying taxes” The only actually quoted calls for tax resistance I’ve been able to find on-line have been pretty timid ones (like “urging businesses to delay their corporate tax payments”), but one article claims that opposition leader Suthep Thaungsuban “has been heard repeatedly admonishing his supporters to withhold their tax payments until the Pheua Thai government is dissolved.” In any case, the threats made the government sit up and notice.
- A much milder version of the traffic-snarling tactics of tax resisters in Paris was practiced recently in Tijuana, where several dozen cars paraded through the streets to protest a bump in the sales tax in Mexico’s border areas.
- Businesses in Dar es Salaam and other parts of Tanzania, shut their doors to protest a hike in the price of tax enforcement machines that the government is requiring merchants to install.
- Oregon resident Roberta Baxter paid her $1,648.64 property tax bill with a big stack of $1 bills and some pocket change.
