NWTRCC’s May 2026 conference on Zoom attracted about 100 participants. Friday evening featured two half-hour sessions where participants could socialize in small groups based on themes offered during registration. We then separated into breakout rooms with themes suggested by participants during registration. One session was a bit more formalized and featured Socialist Washington State congressional… Continue reading
April 15, 2026 Dear IRS, This year, just as we were preparing to pay our taxes, the President of the United States launched a reckless war against Iran, without a clear justification or objective and without Congressional approval. Within the first 24 hours of this horrible misadventure, our country had fired a missile at an… Continue reading
By H. A. Penner Kathy Boylan invited me to speak at the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker about war tax resistance for their March 6th clarification of thought. Around 30 persons were present. The group was composed of both young and old. The best part of the evening was the extensive and engaging group dialogue! There… Continue reading
11/30/2023 01/06/2026 Office of the IRS I have been trying to write this letter for the better part of a year two and a half years. I have spent that time nearly daily reaching out to my elected representatives through multiple channels; while receiving less than a dozen form letter responses, clearly copy-pasted between the… Continue reading
To commemorate the first anniversary of Trump’s inauguration, we will host a War Tax Resistance 101 on Zoom on Tuesday January 20th at 8p Eastern / 5p Pacific. Choose Democracy’s National Tax Strike will also be joining us for this session. Interest in war tax resistance continues to increase in the wake of ICE violence,… Continue reading
For the first time in two years, we held our twice-yearly war tax resistance conference in person. We are very thankful to Patricia Kirkpatrick, an AdComm member in Worcester, who was a local organizer and hosted several attendees in her family’s home. Our conference events on Friday and Saturday were held at the Worcester Friends… Continue reading
By Betty Winkler I received a big surprise in early July of this year. A former professor of mine who followed my careers and with whom I maintained contact for fifty years, left me a modest “Inherited IRA” as one of several beneficiaries. She passed on suddenly, at age eighty-nine. I am honored by this… Continue reading
By Susan Miller President Trump has finally made a proclamation that I agree with. By renaming the Department of Defense, he tells the truth about what the department has been all along: a Department of War. I don’t believe that any of the wars that the United States has engaged in during my lifetime have… Continue reading
[Editor’s Note: The following article was first published by Community Peacemaker Teams on 29 August 2025, as one of their Friday Bulletin emails.] Every budget is a moral document. Whether drafted by a government or an individual, it reflects what – and who – we value. As global military spending surges past two trillion dollars… Continue reading
President Trump’s major budget and tax legislation was signed into law on July 4, 2025. There were several items in the bill that may interest war tax resisters. Some of the new tax laws affect 2025 taxes (filed in 2026), but most will start in 2026 or later. Overtime Pay & Tips: Starting in tax… Continue reading
By Christina Thompson, National Tax Strike Coordinator, and Pete Mousseaux, National Tax Strike Volunteer This June, supporters of The National Tax Strike participated in the 22nd Century Institute’s second conference in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference brought together over a thousand pro-democracy advocates and organizations for four days filled with networking, skill sharing, and inspirational programming… Continue reading
By Karl Meyer I see two alternative visions that I call War Tax Protest and Resistance and War Tax Refusal. I distinguish these two basic approaches by an analogy with the behavior of electrical energy. Copper is a material that allows, but resists, the passage of electric currents. The process of resistance generates heat and… Continue reading