How you can resist funding the government →
a survey of tactics of historical tax resistance campaigns →
short-circuit the bureaucracy with paperwork →
file misconduct complaints against tax officials
If you’ve got some spare time and have a Don Quixote lance in the garage, you might be interested in filling out an IRS Form 13285-A — “Reducing Tax Burden on America’s Taxpayers (Referral Form for Use by the Public)” — essentially a “suggestion box” form asking you for your ideas on what is causing “taxpayer burden” and what you would suggest to solve the problem.
Nearly 2,000 bogus misconduct complaints against Internal Revenue Service agents were filed as part of a long-running fraud by a group that calls itself a Christian ministry to obstruct the federal income tax laws.…
The Justice Department said the false complaints were made to intimidate tax agents.
The complaints cited the I.R.S. Reform and Restructuring Act, which requires the firing of tax agency workers who commit improper acts.…
Since the law was passed, I.R.S. auditors, supervisors and lawyers have repeatedly complained about false complaints.
Some agents have said that their supervisors ordered them to back off from audits or collection efforts in the face of threats, just to avoid investigations by the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.
Some bits and pieces from here and there:
The JustSeeds Artists’ Cooperative is selling a war tax resistance propaganda poster produced by the War Resisters League, in the early 1980s (they believe).
A website calling itself IRS Doghouse aims to let people rate and check up on the ratings of IRS employees.
