Tax Resistance News from Around the World
The latest news on the tax resistance beat:
Lindsey Britt, at Waging Nonviolence , looks at the up-and-coming generation of young American war tax resisters.
The IRS is getting desperate. It is trying to process millions of stimulus payments, implement a bunch of hastily-crafted tax law changes, and cope with a delayed tax filing season, all with a workforce that was decimated by budget cuts and then sent home to avoid infection. Now it's begging its employees to come back to the office and offering them bonus pay, but telling them to bring their own protective equipment — even sending them information on how to create their own facemasks from old T-shirts.
Restaurant owners in the Marche region of Italy, suffering under CoViD-lockdown closures, have launched a tax strike. "We are going on a tax strike because we can't pay because our businesses are closed forcibly," wrote Lucio Pompili, one of the pioneers of the strike. The strike launches this week, and aims to refuse all taxes through the end of the year.
A similar movement is sweeping Argentina. A viral video, featuring small business-owners complaining that they cannot survive if 60% of their earnings are swept up by the government and their businesses are locked down, has touched a nerve, and the #RebeliónFiscal has spread like wildfire.
The Catalan independence movement has relaunched a federal tax resistance campaign. Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has asked Catalonians to redirect the portion of their federal taxes that would otherwise go to support the Spanish monarchy, giving that money instead to the "Republican Fund for Solidarity Action" which will devote the funds to CoViD-19 relief efforts. The campaign is organized via the #ProuMonarquia site.
I'm used to seeing on-again/off-again tax strikes in the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Now the tactic seems to have spread to Ituri. Though a local government committee denounced the idea, a more grassroots group has insisted on withholding taxes until the government takes steps to improve security in the region.
In France, fire and satirical art have been the weapons of choice in recent attacks on automated traffic ticket cameras, while in Germany, a tractor was used to pry such a machine from its moorings.
How you can resist funding the government → a survey of tactics of historical tax resistance campaigns → destroy the apparatus of taxation → modern roadside apparatus in particular
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Not all tax resistance is nonviolent. There are also plenty of examples in which people have taken up arms against the taxing authority, have violently destroyed the apparatus of tax collecting, or have used threats of violence to intimidate or inhibit tax collectors.
Scott Frisby drops his subscription to crappy government services, the Indianapolis Baptist Temple loses a 16-year court battle defending religious tax resistance, War Resisters International releases a free handbook for nonviolent campaigns, automatic ticket-issuing red-light and speed cameras become targets for populist tax revolt, NTodd Pritsky shares some meditations on civil disobedience, and a government watchdog suspects that I.R.S. employees are issuing huge fraudulent refunds under the cover of bureaucratic confusion. Also: Aristotle looks at the "fairness" component of justice.
You're invited to the May NWTRCC national gathering in Tucson. Also: Rebecca and Her Daughters reemerge in Arizona. And: a neighborhood in Argentina opts out of the municipal tax system. Also: inmates in Florida swipe $100,000 from the I.R.S. while still behind bars.
Ruth Benn explains war tax resistance on David Swanson's show. Also: speed camera destruction, paying a traffic ticket with origami, collecting blood in Greece, tax resistance in Indonesia, council tax resister June Farrow gets a finger-wagging, and the U.S. increases its lead as the biggest global arms race dealer.
The "bonnets rouges" are taking a page out of the Rebeccaite handbook and have destroyed dozens of tollgates in Brittany.
Tens of thousands of "bonnets rouges" demonstrated in France today against a so-called "eco-tax" — and reveled in highway blockades and tax portal destruction.
When government-run public transit fares leapt by 66% in Mexico City, commuters started to leap too in what has become a hopping mad protest movement. Also: the Bonnets Rouges continue to destroy traffic radar outposts in France — over 200 so far.
International tax resistance news from Italy, England, Greece, Brazil, and Catalonia.
An international overview of recent tax resistance news from Addis Ababa, Seattle, Suffolk County, Lagos, and Petroupolis.
Tax Day is coming up in the U.S. Find out what's happening near you. Also: a new option for low-income tax resisters in the U.S. And: an update on the tax resistance campaign in Zaragoza. Finally: a suspect in the destruction of a D.C. traffic-ticket camera becomes a folk hero.
A compilation of stories and videos chronicling the destruction or disabling of ticket-issuing traffic cameras by fed up citizens.
I'm back from vacationing in South America. While I was away: Claire Wolfe praised The Picket Line, war tax resisters in Biscay hit the streets, the Republicans tried to sneak in an I.R.S. budget increase, Google threw in the towel on not being evil, and people around the world took justice into their own hands against the traffic-ticket-issuing robots.
People in Nicaragua are refusing to pay taxes and fees to the government as part of a campaign to topple the Ortega-Murillo regime. Also: more attacks on speed cameras, magical thinking about taxes and government spending, voluntary donations to the U.S. government are falling. And: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out, with news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement.
Google backs off from helping to make the military's death drones smarter, other brands try to get a P.R. boost from bucking The Man. Also: tax resistance news from Nicaragua, South Africa, France, South Korea, and Ambazonia.
Tax resistance in the Nicaraguan struggle against the Ortega-Murillo regime. Surveying Chinese business students about tax evasion. Traffic-ticket-generating cameras vandalized around the world. Kenyan petroleum transporters strike against a new tax. And a city tax strike is proposed in La Rioja, Argentina.
Recent news regarding war tax resistance, tax resistance as practiced around the world, and tax administration follies in the United States.
War tax resisters fight tax breaks for weapons contractors, prank calls take down a government xenophobia hotline, what might happen if you try to stare down an I.R.S. summons, how to wield the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights," and the global grassroots campaign against traffic-ticket-generating robots continues.
An interactive map of the Rebecca Riots, a new tax rebellion in France, more protest and resistance in Greece, the U.S., South Africa, and New Zealand. Also: an audit of the I.R.S. includes a new estimate of the size of the "tax gap" and shows just how much unpaid tax the agency writes off as "uncollectible" each year.
The gilets jaunes movement in France, with its street protests and blockades, has been getting all the press — and has indeed forced significant and painful concessions from the government. But while the gilets jaunes were in the streets, they and their allies were also knocking traffic ticket cameras out of service — by the hundreds — at great cost to the government.
A documentary about war tax resister Larry Bassett, more news of I.R.S. failures, women take over the American military-industrial complex, speed camera destruction proceeds internationally, and more recent news of interest to tax resisters.
The I.R.S. says it will take at least a year to recover from the backlog, the disruption, and the devastation of employee morale caused by the government "shutdown." Meanwhile, the epidemic of traffic ticket camera destruction continues in France, and begins to spread beyond the borders.
Nicaraguan tax resistance leader Irlanda Jerez is being tortured in prison. Radar destruction continues at a slower pace in France. Julia Butterfly Hill interviewed on her war tax resistance. And: what is a tax resister to do in the face of tariffs?
The I.R.S. sent me nine envelopes yesterday, one for each tax year they're pursuing me for. Also: a U.S. anti-abortion tax resister has a court victory, Ruth Benn examines I.R.S. enforcement at a time of agency stress, California conservatives consider a tax strike, traffic ticket camera destruction continues worldwide, and more international tax resistance news.
Joffre Stewart — peacemaker, poet, anarcho-pacifist war tax resister, and legendary distributor of "incomprehensible leaflets" — has died. Also: the documentary film about war tax resister Larry Bassett has been released, lax I.R.S. enforcement makes tax compliance a sucker's game, what anti-abortion tax resister Michael Bowman's court victories really add up to, and the latest dispatches from the ongoing epidemic of speed camera destruction.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out, with news and outreach tips for the upcoming Tax Day, among other things. Also: the New York Times takes a close look at how "sovereign citizens" use bureaucratic incantations and a curious mythology to milk the I.R.S. And: adding up how much traffic camera destruction has cost the French government in unissued traffic tickets.
Tax resistance news from all over the world, including also news from the U.S. war tax resistance movement and notes about declining taxpayer morale in the U.S. Also: some numbers have just been released about how many levies, liens, and property seizures the I.R.S. resorted to last year.
Switch to bitcoin to defund the war machine? Also: tax resistance news from Nicaragua, Indonesia, New Zealand, France, and Germany. And: the I.R.S. is redesigning its W-4 form, auditing much fewer wealthy people, and sometimes finding itself frustrated by bankrupt tax scofflaws.
The wealthy already pay high tax rates! (Sure, on that portion of income they aren't hiding off-shore.) Also: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out, attacks on traffic-ticket cameras continue, and a look back at war tax redirection from this date in 1973.
Nicaraguan tax resistance leader Irlanda Jerez released along with other political prisoners. An international war tax resistance conference is coming up. More international tax resistance news. The Republican tax law takes more from people, less from corporations. Also: the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. promoted war tax resistance in 1988, infuriating a U.S. congressman.
London's "Extinction Rebellion" movement launches its tax strike for ecological sustainability. Speed camera radar outposts destroyed by determined drivers across Europe. Boris Johnson, prime minister, tax resister. Tax strikes threatened in Budalengi, Kenya and Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo to protest the government's inability to provide basic services.
Cofounders of the Agape Community interviewed. Tax strikes in Pakistan, Venice, Catalonia, and North Kivu. Continuing attacks on roadside traffic ticket robots. And how Trump is both destroying taxpayer morale and making life more miserable for I.R.S. workers.
A new videoblog introduces practical war tax resistance techniques. Anti-abortion tax resister Michael Bowman scores another courtroom triumph. Tireless activist and war tax resister Frances Crowe dies at age 100. Tax resisters in North Kivu organize. And attacks on traffic ticket cameras continue around Europe.
A tax resistance manual gets an on-line release. The war on traffic ticket cameras continues. War tax resisters profiled. Tax strikes in Venezuela and the D.R.C. Graphics promote and educate about a consumer strike and tax resistance campaign in Nicaragua.
A new NWTRCC newsletter is out. The I.R.S. tries to put some teeth in the government's new power to revoke passports from tax scofflaws. Local governments battle I.R.S. over lien-filing fees. And more news about tax resistance and tax resisters.
NWTRCC national gathering next weekend in Oregon. Nathan Goodman on the costs of American empire. A suspicious new tax resistance campaign. The war on traffic ticket cameras continues. I.R.S. liens and deceptive junkmail. Ed & Elaine "show me the law" Brown may get out of prison after all. And the government of Ontario battles Canada's federal government over carbon taxes.
Peter Bagge draws a delightful Lysander Spooner. Tax resistance is one of the tactics of an Economic Hurricane designed to boost Catalan independence. The I.R.S. blinks in its standoff with county recorders. And the human war on traffic-ticket generating robot camera hordes continue to keep hope alive in the hearts of the rebellion.
A Catalan restaurant whose owners have been resisting and redirecting Spanish taxes for years has been forced to close. Also: Coordination with environmental activism discussed at NWTRCC national meeting. And: American war tax resisters at the School of the Americas Watch gathering and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 trial. Also: attacks on traffic-ticket-generating radar cameras continue.
The Arumeru tax revolt of 1998 was a rare show of determined people-power in Tanzania (or was it just political elites manipulating popular discontent for their own purposes?). Also: depot blockades in France over fuel tax hike, another call for a tax strike in North Kivu, 17,886 traffic-ticket-generating robots in France attacked by angry drivers, half the cigarettes smoked in New York are brought there by smugglers, and a hazmat scare at an I.R.S. office.
Hong Kong protesters use clever software to gum up the tax agency. Aristotle's guide to anarchism. A new NWTRCC newsletter. I.R.S. ramps up surprise in-person visits to tax scofflaws. Paula Rogge on how to defang I.R.S. reprisals against resisters. Lebanese business-owners threaten a tax strike. And the human war on traffic-ticket-generating cameras continues to take robot casualties.
Pete Brace, climate activist from the U.K., shares the correspondence from his tax refusal battle. More details from the ongoing Lebanon tax strike. How the I.R.S. face-to-face visits may play out. "Sovereign citizens" swindle millions of dollars from the I.R.S. but don't know when to quit. The human war on traffic ticket robots continues. And, the Greek government tries to force its tax evading population away from cash to more trackable forms of money.
War tax resisters in Canada, paying your taxes in a wagonload of nickles, speed camera vandals strike again, 50 years later a war tax redirection is still paying off, and the latest on the tax strike in Lebanon.
The I.R.S. filed another tax lien against me. The last two didn't seem to make any difference, so I don't expect much from this one. Also: videos from the recent international conference on war tax resistance and peace tax campaigns. And: more dispatches from the human war on traffic ticket generating camera robots.
Albertan politician David Swann has launched a tax strike to protest the government's unwillingness to pursue corporate tax dodgers from the fossil fuel industry. Also: how financial fraudsters peeled tens of billions of dollars from European governments; the human war on speed camera radars continues; the I.R.S. blinks in its stand-off with county governments; and a tax strike in Goma, North Kivu.
A speed radar replaced by a "rat d'art", American politicians are perhaps starting to come together on restoring funding for the I.R.S., a men's magazine calls for a nonpartisan U.S. tax strike, more tax resistance in Kivu, the latest figures on the cost of the war on Iraq, and what you'll find in the latest NWTRCC newsletter.
If the I.R.S. files a tax lien against you, prepare for a flood of junkmail. Also: another tax strike in South Kivu, attacks on traffic ticket robots in Italy and France, a hazmat team called to an Alabama I.R.S. office over a leaky international letter, a steadfast council tax rebel in Cornwall, and Crispin Sartwell on the foolishness of trying to tax our way to economic equality.
I got nine separate letters from the I.R.S. today, in a vivid demonstration of government waste. Also: tax strikers on the march in South Kivu, a varied arsenal attacks traffic ticket radars across Europe, and a new tax redirection campaign for Catalan independence.
Looking back at the Women's Tax Resistance League and at the Poll Tax riots thirty years ago. A recap of the last international war tax resistance conference. Another American taxpayer reaches the limit and moves on to resistance. And attacks on traffic ticket radar cameras continue in Europe.
Much of the I.R.S. workforce is twiddling their thumbs at home while collecting a paycheck. There's a new tax strike in Argentina. The 30th anniversary of the British poll tax rebellion is celebrated. American war tax resisters adjust to protest in a time of epidemic. And the war on traffic ticket cameras continues in Europe.
Extinction Rebellion plans to launch a tax strike in Britain (or maybe that's just a right-wing fantasy). Are the property tax strikes of the Great Depression due for a revival? The number of Americans renouncing their U.S. citizenship reached an all-time high in the first quarter of this year. And: attacks on traffic ticket robots continue in Europe.
Without any legal authorization, the I.R.S. is threatening prisoners in order to claw back the stimulus checks they are entitled to by law. Also: a self-employed musician launches a tax strike in Israel, war tax resistance news from the United States, and reports from around the world on the human war against traffic ticket robots.
David & Jan Hartsough share their war tax resistance letter to the I.R.S., a taxpayer uses the law to fight back against the I.R.S.'s private debt collector deputies, neighbors of a Vancouver homeless encampment threaten tax resistance to pressure the government to help, a new NWTRCC newsletter is out, and the international human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
A Beirut business owner has decided to redirect his taxes from the corrupt and inept government to charitable organizations who are effectively responding to the port explosion disaster. Also: local governments in Catalonia are refusing to remit taxes to the Spanish federal government. Resistance to the U.K. television license fee. Payroll taxes deferred to the end of the year in the U.S. And more successful attacks against the traffic ticket robots.
An introductory war tax resistance workshop is coming up in about a month. Also: anti-abortion tax resister Michael Bowman back in court, a new history of the Agape Community is out, war tax resister Alan Barnett has died, tax resistance rumblings get louder in South Africa, and the human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
Even "socially responsible" investment funds that say they screen out investments in warfare often loan money to the Pentagon by investing in treasury bonds. What is a conscientious investor to do? Also: updates on tax resistance in Strathcona and South Kivu, a hazmat team called out to the I.R.S. office, and the human rebellion against traffic ticket robots continues.
Lindsey Britt on war tax resistance, charitable donations, relationships, and ethical decisionmaking. The U.S. federal budget is a mess and getting worse (or better, if you're eager to see it go bankrupt). The human battle against traffic ticket robots continues in Europe. And more tax resistance news from Galmudug, Veneto, and Catalonia.
A trove of artifacts from the poll tax rebellion in the U.K. have been scanned in and made available via The Sparrows's Nest Library and Archive. Also: a property tax strike is brewing in Boston, more traffic ticket robots disabled in France, and Donald Trump contributes to the collapse of taxpayer compliance in the United States.
The I.R.S.'s extra-legal attempt to withhold stimulus payments from prisoners gets slapped down by a federal judge. There's a new NWTRCC newsletter out. The human war on traffic ticket robots continues. And more recent tax resistance links of note.
My limerick commentary on current events. Profiles of war tax resisters Don Timmerman, John Woolman, and Ammon Hennacy. Creative ways to exploit I.R.S. paperwork chaos. Traffic ticket robots under attack in Europe. How tax evasion may suddenly balloon. How the "All or Nothing Syndrome" discourages war tax resistance. Americans renounce their citizenship in record numbers. And peace activists who attacked U.S. military planes in Ireland are found not guilty by a sympathetic jury.
Rob Greenfield announces he's through paying federal taxes. Also: fifty thousand businesses in Tuscany launch a coordinated tax strike. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues. Also: prohibitive American cigarette taxes inexorably lead to a boom in smuggling.
There's a new NWTRCC newsletter out with updates for American war tax resisters. Also: another tax strike is brewing in South Kivu. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues around the world.
The human rebellion against the traffic ticket robots continues to rage. Here is a collection of recent reports from Italy, France, England, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and Guadeloupe. Also: reading the tea leaves and trying to divine whether or not an I.R.S. budget increase is in our future.
An Extiction Rebellion tax resister speaks out on The Earth Tax Strike group's plans. The South Kivu tax strike heats up. Ruth Benn on John-Ed Croft, and Bob Bady on Juanita & Wally Nelson. And the human battle against the traffic ticket robots continues.
The I.R.S. sends me another eight letters (yawn). Also: boycotts target the military coup in Myanmar. And the human battle against the traffic ticket robots continues.
Tax resistance against the military coup in Myanmar heats up. #MoneyRebellion's Earth Tax Strike prepares to launch. Don't be intimidated into silence by frivolous filing penalties. The human war on traffic ticket robots continues. The I.R.S. says it will give you your stimulus money even if you owe taxes, and you now have until May 17 to file your return.
Long-time war tax resisters Arcadi Oliveres and David Zarembka have died. More Catalan municipalities begin withholding their taxes from Spain. A new NWTRCC newsletter, press release, and upcoming national gathering. A tax strike in North Kivu is boosted by a hartal and sit-ins. A new War Resisters League federal spending pie chart is out. Constitutional challenges to revocations of passports from tax scofflaws look unlikely to succeed, says tax prof. Biden plans to boost the I.R.S. enforcement budget. And: more traffic ticket camera destruction in Europe.
War tax resisters celebrate International Conscientious Objection Day. Anti-coup tax strikers in Myanmar are also refusing to pay government monopoly electricity bills. U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren wants to double the I.R.S. budget. And more tax resistance news from around the world.
Extinction Rebellion U.K. puts out a video to announce the launch of its Earth Tax Strike. Also: Peter Goldberger on the legal prospects for conscientious objection to military taxation in the U.S., an interesting hack of California's tax system, a history of how the I.R.S. got into its current sorry state, prospects for the Biden Administration's plans to turn that around, a letter from a Basque war tax resister, and more tales from the human war on traffic ticket robots.
An estimated 61% of U.S. households paid no federal income tax last year. The I.R.S. says it will avoid seizing money from bank accounts that received Advanced Child Tax Credit deposits. A "Council Tax Strike" hits the U.K. The human war on traffic-ticket-issuing robot cameras continues. And: looks back at the tax resistance of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen and of Henry David Thoreau.
The Biden administration would like the I.R.S. to have more visibility into your bank accounts, but the legislative proposal to force banks to report this information may not survive the reconciliation process. Also: a recap of the activism of war tax resisters Eroseana Robinson and Juanita & Wally Nelson. And: the human war on traffic ticket robots continues.
The I.R.S. pulls a fast one to evade the statute of limitations. International tax resisters to speak at upcoming NWTRCC conference. New regional war tax resistance group starts in New England. Recap of Women's Tax Resistance League published. London environmentalists launch tax strike against new incinerator. Biafra Nations League issues tax strike ultimatum. Conscientious objectors to abortion introduce peace-tax-fund-like legislation in Argentina. And more of the latest tax resistance news.
Plans to let the I.R.S. snoop on your bank accounts get more modest. A new guide to healthy eating on a frugal budget. Federal tax revenues are way up this year, thanks to booming fortunes of corporations and the wealthy. And the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against the traffic ticket robot hordes continues.
Congressional Democrats were unable to coalesce around a plan to let the I.R.S. snoop on your bank accounts, so that looks to be off the table for now. But the I.R.S. budget is getting a boost that will erase the cuts from the past decade. Meanwhile the global human ragtag guerrilla defense against traffic ticket robots continues, as shown in this dramatic video.
War tax resister Randy Kehler profiled. An interview with war tax resister Kathy Kelly and an article about war tax resistance by Lincoln Rice and Glen Milner. Richard M. Schickel, a former I.R.S. Revenue Officer, has put out a new book about why the I.R.S. doesn't work anymore. The I.R.S. customer service phone line is so bad, a business is making a profit by sitting on hold for you. And: Santa Claus converts a traffic ticket camera into a pose-with-santa photo booth.
A North London Incinerator Council Tax Strike Handbook published. The anticipated I.R.S. funding boost runs into snags in Congress. Highlights from the Taxpayer Advocate's annual report. New levies, liens, and seizures annual totals released. And: the human war against the robot traffic ticket camera hordes continues.
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Argentina → #RebeliónFiscal in 2020
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Democratic Republic of the Congo → Tax strikes in Ituri, 2020–21
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Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Italy → Marche restauranteurs, 2020
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Spain → Catalonia in 2010–21 → Carles Puigdemont
Some historical and global examples of tax resistance → Spain → Catalonia in 2010–21
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Eight Catalonian war tax resisters are acquitted of vandalism. Also: The myth and the reality of Gandhi's satyagraha campaign. And: the lie that military spending is a boost to the economy.
Jorge Güemes petitions the Superior Court in Valencia to acknowledge his right to conscientious objection to military taxation.
A near-twin of mine appears in an article on tax resistance. A CPA takes on tax-optimizing his life as a hobby. And an influential Catalan editor calls for a tax strike against the Spanish government.
Catalan nationalists call for a nationwide tax resistance campaign to force fiscal independence from Spain.
The tax resistance campaign for Catalan independence gets some support from rebellious city councils.
Tax resistance by Catalan separatists and by Italy's Northern league, household tax resisters in Ireland and a council tax resister in England, the story of the Bardoli satyagraha, the I.R.S. seizes a bit of Cindy Sheehan's rent money, an American alternative currency martyr is profiled, and I.R.S. employees seem to be in a rush to get delinquent accounts off their desks. Also: a few more glimpses at the tax strike of Beit Sahour during the first intifada in 1989.
Some tax resistance campaigns have tried to partially or completely secede from the government that is taxing them, or to set up alternative parallel governmental or quasi-governmental institutions to compete with or crowd out those of the established government.
Tomorrow I leave for the 14th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns in Bogotá, Colombia. Expect things to be a little quieter around here for the next month. Also: tax resistance in Catalonia, more on the War Resisters International war tax capitulation, and an update on prisoner tax fraud.
War tax resisters David Waters and Juanita Nelson make the news. More on tax resistance in Catalonia. I.R.S. employee furloughs ahead. And: the movers and shakers at Google are ominously pitching their view of the future of the internet to the lords of war, international intrigue, and government intervention, who sound delighted by what they are hearing.
The tax resistance movement for Catalan independence grows. Also: The I.R.S. is becoming increasingly loathed. And: Learn about Offices of Economic Disobedience (if you understand Spanish). Also: I get another letter from the I.R.S.
Some updates on tax resistance by Catalan separatists, and on the I.R.S. scandals.
War tax resistance news from the U.S., American tax law news, tax resistance news from Spain, France, Greece, the Dominican Republic, Argentina, and the Isle of Man, and a couple of looks back at the poll tax resistance campaign in Britain.
Some tax resistance news from Catalonia, India, and England. Also: an armchair quarterback from London gives the authorities some advice on how to handle the Rebeccaites.
Tax resistance news from Ireland, Catalonia, and Italy. Also: the U.S. government seems to be cracking down on home-distilling.
Tax resistance news from Spain & Catalonia, Italy, Ireland, Germany, France, Britain, and Greece.
Catalan separatists have a tax resistance strategy. Kathy Kelly talks of her war tax resistance. The War Resisters League publish a new federal budget pie chart. Scotland lets poll tax refusers off the hook. And Greece offers its tax resisters a deal.
An international tax resistance roundup, with news from the U.S., Catalonia, India, Ireland, Pakistan, Greece, and Italy.
News from Catalonia, Mexico, India, and the United States highlight the variety of ways people are pushing back against tax collectors.
Workers in the Codevi in Ounaminthe, Haiti strike to protest a new wage tax. U.S. war tax resisters organize a tax redirection to resistance organizations. The Catalan independence movement lays the groundwork for a mass tax strike. The French government surveys the damage from the successful bonnets rouges movement. And ROAR Magazine looks at the Irish water charge insurgency.
Tax resistance forecast for the Catalan independence campaign. International resistance to the Greek coffee tax. Resisting the Greek tax on the electric bill. And, author Lou Cadle says she won't be paying federal income tax until Trump is gone.
Residents of the Strathcona neighborhood of Vancouver launch a tax strike to protest government neglect of the homeless. Also: a report on the 15th international tax resistance conference, skepticism about tax resistance for Catalan independence, and a record number of people renounce their U.S. citizenship.
Does the U.S. government respect their citizens' right to travel abroad? A record number of rich Americans renounced their citizenship last year. Catalan restaurateurs redirect their taxes for seven years and now are fighting a big fine. The I.R.S. continues to drown in a backlog of last year's tax forms, and Congress seems in no hurry to bail them out with more funding. And: a new NWTRCC newsletter is out.