Letters to the IRS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

August 17, 2010 Dear Internal Revenue Service, I am writing in response to a tax return overdue notice sent to me on May 24, 2010, regarding my “US Individual Income Tax Return” for the tax period of “12-31-2008.” It is my intention to decline to submit a tax return for the aforementioned tax period, or… Continue reading

April 18, 2010 Dear IRS employee: IRS rules indicate that we owe the IRS $573. Tax receipts extorted by the IRS from the American people under violence and/or threat of violence are used by the U.S. government and its armed death forces to pay interest on the debt incurred to wage wars of aggression for the benefit… Continue reading

April 14, 2010 Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service Center Atlanta, Ga 39901-0102 To Whom it May Concern: My wife and I are filing our form 1040 but cannot in good conscience comply with the payment instructions. We were both raised Quaker (The Religious Society of Friends), one of the three traditional Peace Churches,… Continue reading

April 5, 2010 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…. Continue reading

Miriam Copp 6117 Germantown Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19114 April 15, 2008 Internal Revenue Service P.O. Box 37008 Hartford, CT 06176 To the Internal Revenue Service As a conscientious objector to war, I will not pay my 2007 income taxes. I believe war is wrong and therefore I cannot pay for it. There are other ways… Continue reading