By Ilene Roizman A year ago, committing to tax resistance felt like jumping off a cliff. There had been a three-year period a few years prior when circumstances allowed me to work so little I wasn’t required to file, and I didn’t, without any hesitation. So when it came time to make not filing a… Continue reading
Jan Passion 2018
16 April 2018 Dear good people at the IRS, Enclosed is my 1040-V Payment Voucher for my 2017 taxes. You will find a check in the amount of $1,268 due for self-employment tax (social security tax). You will note that I have NOT paid my income tax due ($261). I would like to explain why. … Continue reading
David and Jan Hartsough 2018
Dear Friends at the IRS, We are Quakers and cannot in conscience pay for the killing of other human beings or pay for war and preparations for war. Human life is too precious to drop bombs on people because we do not like their governments. Developing a new generation of nuclear weapons which could put… Continue reading
Larry Bassett 2018
US Internal Revenue Service 1101 Court St. Lynchburg VA 24504 Dear Lynchburg IRS staff, I am sorry I have not been in touch with your office much sooner than this in my search for a solution to my federal income tax problem. Quite honestly, I did not realize that there was an IRSoffice in Lynchburg. But let me… Continue reading
Reflections on War Tax Resistance Actions
By Michael McCarthy In May 2007, I wrote an article (pictured below) for the Port Huron, Michigan Times Herald called “Protesters want to pay taxes, but don’t want immoral war” about our project, “Iraq Peace Bonds.” We’d formed a local community to openly redirect some of the federal income tax money going to the Iraq… Continue reading
Sixty Years with The Catholic Worker And Fifty-Eight Years of Effective War Tax Refusal
By Karl Meyer July 12, 2017 marked my anniversary for 60 years of active engagement with Catholic Worker communities. On that day in 1957, at lunch hour, I hurried out from my job as a stock clerk at Barnes and Noble in New York City, raced to the Catholic Worker House on Chrystie Street, and,… Continue reading
Time for a Change
By Ruth Benn Change is coming for NWTRCC and for me. After nearly 15 years as NWTRCC Coordinator, I am planning to end my tenure at the May 2018 gathering in Los Angeles. Our November meeting in Massachusetts established a hiring committee. They are laying out a timeline for advertising (see the insert in this… Continue reading
An Adventurous Journey
By Charlie Toledo, Napa County, California Charlie Toledo I am an “assimilated” Indian supporting Northern California Native issues in Napa County, about 50 miles north of San Francisco, where I have lived since 1972. It’s a lovely place to have my home and family! I am a masseuse and hypnotherapist (since 1986) with a background… Continue reading
Tom Haws 2017
Thomas Gail Haws 859 North Lafayette Mesa AZ 85201 9 Apr 2017 Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 7704 San Francisco, CA 94120-7704 Conscientious War Tax Resistance Dear IRS Employee, As a conscientious objector to war, I will not pay my 2016 income tax. I believe war killing is wrong and therefore I cannot pay for… Continue reading
Bill Ruhaak 2017
Fed Up and Taking the Next Tangible Step
Sam Koplinka-Loehr interviews Sarah Mueller Courtesy of Sarah Mueller Sarah Mueller is a first year war tax resister. She lives in Philadelphia and is actively involved in justice-centric community film programming, neighborhood gardening initiatives, as well as, organizing for racial justice. Sam: As someone who is new to war tax resistance, what is exciting to… Continue reading
Paul and Fran Sheldon 2017
April 15, 2017 To the Internal Revenue Service: We support our country in all its peaceful endeavors, but for reasons of conscience and religious faith we do not support our country in its preparation for war and in war making. We are deeply troubled by the fact that about half of the federal income tax… Continue reading
