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Tax Season Is Here!
If you are somewhere between outraged and sick about all the U.S. tax money that goes to the military and to war, consider joining our public list of war tax resisters and refusers. NWTRCC has updated the War Tax Boycott website for 2012. If you are wondering how to do war tax resistance, some groups offer workshops between now and tax day, April 17, 2012. See the events list or use our contacts list to find someone in your area. If your group is doing an action about military spending and war tax resistance between now and tax day, please email the information to us and we'll post on this website.
Peace Tax Fund Bill
"We must protect conscience from war," writes Duane Shank on the Sojourners blog. The article includes links to the H.R. 1191, introduced into Congress by Rep. John Lewis (Ga.).
Being Public
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan continues her public response to the IRS demands for her taxes. After her son was killed in Iraq in 2004 she announced that she could no longer pay taxes to the U.S. government. She has found the need to respond to allies as well as the IRS. Read her blog...
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International Conferences
13th International Conference on
War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns
Click on the photo for more photos and a report from the July meetings in Norway posted by Friedrich Heilmann of the Netzwerk Friedenssteuer in Germany.
Skiringssal College
near Sandefjord, Norway
July 2–4, 2010
www.peacetaxconference.org/
12th International Conference of
War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns
Hosted by Conscience, Taxes for Peace Not War
University of Manchester, Fallowfield Campus
Manchester, England
5th to 7th September, 2008
Click here for Reports and Photos
International Conference Background
The first International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns was held in Tübingen, Germany, in 1986. Conferences have been held every-other-year since then in other European countries and in India in 1998 and the U.S. in 2000. While the conferences are organized by the local groups, Conscience and Peace Tax International (CPTI) was founded at the conference in Hondarribia, Spain, in 1994, to connect the groups working on legislative campaigns and to track legal issues internationally. The CPTI website includes reports from meetings, links to groups, court documents, and more.
The conferences offer a time to exchange information and experience gained by individuals and groups during their local campaigns; learn about legal issues in individual countries; increase the effectiveness by which our groups offer peace tax legislation and/or war tax resistance as a means for civilians to object against war and war preparation; and investigate the need for an international platform for the national groups to make our efforts more visible on an international level.
NWTRCC has sent a representative to each meeting, and reports appear in our newsletter, More Than A Paycheck, (search on international conferences).