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Attention Teachers!

If you teach Thoreau or want to in­spire class­room dis­cus­sions about the change pos­sible through non­violent ac­tion and civil dis­obe­di­ence, con­sider using NWTRCC’s new teach­ing packet. Click here for more in­for­ma­tion about NWTRCC’s new study guide and kit, “Thoreau and His Heirs.”

Fall Events

Join war tax re­sist­ers in DC, Boston, Ten­nes­see, Georgia — and at local actions. More info…

WTRs Report to Prison

Read about the case of Car­los Stew­ard, who headed to Fed­eral Prison Camp on Au­gust 6, 2010. His ad­dress is at the end of the ar­ti­cle.

On July 26, Frank Don­nel­ly re­ported to fed­eral prison to begin serv­ing a year sen­tence for char­ges re­lated to his re­fusal to pay for war.… Read more …

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Profiles of War Tax Resisters

. . . who have appeared in “More Than a Paycheck”

DeCourcy Squire (Aug 2009). It is late winter in the 1950s. My father is closeted with lots of receipts, trying to figure out the taxes. Although he is a brilliant mathematician, he finds arithmetic, especially in these pre-calculator days, tedious and it makes him cross. . . . [read more]

Mimi Copp (April 2009) Jesus says to love your enemies and your neighbors. In some ways, that is all that needs to be said as to why I have decided to redirect my federal tax dollars away from war-making and towards life giving initiatives. I can't figure out how to justify the killing of those who Jesus says to love. How am I loving them if I'm a part of their destruction. . . . [read more]

Becky Pierce (December 2008) I have been a war tax resister for the past 43 years, all of my adult working life. Since 1989, when I stopped filing tax returns, I've gotten very little attention from the IRS. Because I am self-employed, my income is not normally reported to the IRS. But a little over a year ago a local agent started . . . . [read more]

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis (Aug 2008). In the summer of 2006, I officially became a Zen Buddhist and promised to uphold the Buddhist precepts. It seemed to me that the gravest of them was Non-Killing, and that the most violent thing I did was to pay my federal income tax . . . [read more]

J. Tony Serra (Aug 2007). He's been called one of the greatest criminal defense lawyers of the 20th century. He's also only one of two war tax resisters since World War II to have been jailed for "willful failure to pay" federal income taxes. Last March, Tony Serra was released after spending nine months in Lompoc Federal Penitentiary in California. Twice before—in 1974 and 1986—Serra had been convicted because of his war tax resistance. . . . [read more]

Tim Pluta (April 2007). While serving in the military, it finally occurred to me one day that I might be called upon to kill somebody. I didn't like the idea very much, so I ended up applying to get out as a conscientious objector (CO). [read more]

Stanley Bohn (August 2006) As war tax resisters the why-we-do-it shapes the what-we-do. Since our reasons for not paying part of our federal income tax are not to avoid all taxes, my wife Anita and I use probably the least clever ways to resist taxes. We reduce our taxable income by giving as much as we can to charitable causes, fill out tax forms, and send. . . . [read more]

Rev. Bucky Beach (April 2005) It was over 20 years ago that I started nonpayment of taxes owed to the IRS. I was scared, but youth breeds a sense of immortality, which was accompanied by a bit of a chip on my shoulder and a desire to be faithful to what I believed. I did some research and read some stories of property seizures and levies. . . . [read more]

Joe DeRaymond (March 2002) My war tax resistance began in 1973, when I was 23, in the last days of the United States military presence in Southeast Asia. I had been denied the opportunity to resist the draft because my draft number was just out of the range of being called for duty. Tax resistance seemed like a reasonable method of resisting the war machine . . . . [read more]

Nancy and Gary T. Guthrie (Feb. 2007and Dec. 1998) Imagine that you are sitting on a lawn chair atop a straw stack bordering a beautiful organic garden in the heart of Iowa. You are watching a golden harvest moon rise above the rows of corn that stretch out in front of you rustling like a sea of applause. The straw stack is a mulch supply for the beautiful garden . . . . [read more]

Wally Nelson: A Revolutionary Inspiration, remembrance by Bob Bady (August 2002) Wally and Juanita became war tax resisters in 1948 after attending the founding conference of the group "Peacemakers." This group of war resisters made the connection between the permanent war economy being created and the expansive income tax system . . . . [read more]

Priscilla Adams (April 1997). When I left college in 1974, I joined the Movement for a New Society and earned below a taxable level, filing W-4's as exempt. When I began to earn enough to owe money, I refused to pay 100% and continued to file W-4's as exempt. After a paycheck was garnished I stopped filing my 1040's because I did not want to help them in any way to collect money. . . . [read more]