Tax Day 2012 To Whom It May Concern, Dear Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Tax season is upon us again and I am writing you my elected officials today to inform you of my concerns as an American citizen and to ask you to please remember your oath to support the Constitution and your duty of… Continue reading
Letters to the IRS
David and Jan Hartsough (2013)
Dear Friends at the IRS, We 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 an end ot life… Continue reading
Anonymous
Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 37008 Hartford, CT 06176-0008 To Whom It May Concern at the IRS, As a matter of deep personal and religious conscience, I join tens of thousands of other U.S. Americans this tax season in resisting federal income tax spent on U.S. military and defense. My convictions call that I refuse, in some… Continue reading
Paul Sheldon (2013)
For decades I have refused to pay a modest amount of my federal income taxes because about half of that money goes to paying the costs of war. The human costs are incomparably greater. The IRS may get the money eventually, but I live better knowing that I have not simply co-operated with a violent… Continue reading
Lauren Tepper (2013)
March 15, 2013 Dear IRS Personnel: I am thankful to live in a country that allows freedom of speech. For years I have been exercising my right of free speech by protesting the United States’ aggressive militarism. I am working with the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee and withholding a portion of my taxes this year… Continue reading
Shirley Whiteside (2012)
Tax Day 2012 TO WHOM IT SHOULD CONCERN: Please note that as we pay our 2011 income taxes, we have withheld $100 in protest. We are not opposed to taxes, in fact we believe that they are essential in the provision of a sound social system; for protecting a viable infrastructure and care for the… Continue reading
Sherri Maurin
Tax Day 2012 Dear Friends in the IRS, I have always fulfilled my responsibilities as a citizen of the United States, and I will be submitting my IRS form 1040 for 2011. However, I also believe my responsibilities as a citizen include informing my government of my profound concerns about the use of those taxes… Continue reading
David and Jan Hartsough (2012)
April 2012 Dear Friends We are Conscientious Objectors and cannot in conscience kill other human beings. We deeply believe that we are all God’s children and we are all brothers and sisters. Just as we cannot kill our brother who lives in California, we cannot kill our brothers or sisters who live in Afghanistan, Pakistan… Continue reading
Douglas and Maureen Mackenzie (2012)
February 29, 2012 Dear IRS employee, On this, the sixth year of our refusal to cooperate with the tax custom of the USA, we write to you to reaffirm our stance. During the blatantly corrupt, feverishly murderous administration of George W. Bush we could not, in good conscience send monetary support to the government, no… Continue reading
Seth Berner
April 11, 2011 Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 37008 Hartford, CT 06178-0008 Re: Seth Berner, 2011 Form 1040 Dear People: When George Bush took the White House he inherited a budget surplus and relative peace in the world. Eight years later this country had the biggest deficit on record, the greatest degree of public unrest and uncertainty… Continue reading
Lauren Tepper
April 3, 2011 Dear IRS Personnel: I am thankful to live in a country that allows freedom of speech. For years I have been exercising my right of free speech by protesting the United States’ aggressive militarism. However, it seems that my voice and the voices of so many others who abhor war have gone… Continue reading
David and Jan Hartsough (2011)
March 30, 2011 Dear Friends at the IRS: As we approach April 15 and are again asked to contribute close to half of our tax dollars for the military and wars – past, present and future – we have to ask ourselves whether this is really how we want to spend our hard earned money. Our… Continue reading