Miscellaneous tax resisters → individual war tax resisters → Scott Schumacher

Scott Schumacher blogs about his tax resistance experience. He withheld the tax he owed in 2004 and included a letter with his tax return explaining to the IRS why he was refusing to pay. Since then he hasn’t heard anything from the IRS about this tax debt.

Not only that, but in the following years he was due a refund when he filed his taxes in April. This meant that he wasn’t able to resist his taxes when filing his return, but the IRS did give him his full refund without attempting to deduct his previous tax “debt” from it.

Perhaps my letter was worded well enough to the poor worker at the IRS for them to feel sympathy, or perhaps I was just lost in the shuffle, and I’ll get a letter to collect in a few years. Who knows. The good part for me was that I stood up to basically a “war-making machine” in a very personal way.