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Who We Are
The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is a coalition of local, regional, and national groups and individuals from across the United States. For everyone interested in or actively refusing to pay taxes for war, NWTRCC offers information, referral, support, resources, publicity, campaign sponsorship, and connection to an international network of conscientious objectors to war taxes.
Recent Blog Posts
Days of War Tax Action 2016 Press Release
Days of War Tax Action 2016 PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release: January 15, 2016 Contact: Ruth Benn, Coordinator National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) PO Box 150553, Brooklyn, NY11215 • 800-269-7464 From Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday to Tax...Continue reading→
Thomas Haws
19 Oct 2015 Dear IRS Employee, As a conscientious objector to war, I will not pay my 2014 1040X income tax. I believe war killing is wrong and therefore I cannot pay for it. There are other ways for nations...Continue reading→
Collection Is Not a Resistance Failure
I was wondering what war tax resisters were thinking about in 1996, which is as far back as our archived newsletter archives go. (Answer: pretty much the same things in different contexts!) I came across a piece on the effectiveness...Continue reading→
Martin Sheen backs this war-tax-resisting group
Since I joined the war tax resistance movement, I’ve had many opportunities to get to know friends in the Catholic Worker houses around the country, including in New York City, Milwaukee, and Las Vegas. Catholic Worker houses offer a place...Continue reading→
Upcoming Events
Register here for our Social Hour on Zoom at 6p Eastern (Sun August 17, 2025)
WTR 101 with General Strike U.S., Thur. July 24 at 7p Eastern. Click here to join when the event begins.
For full list of WTR events, including upcoming local in-person workshops, click here.
New Resources
The new War Tax Resistance Guidebook was published in March 2025. Order your copy here!
National Tax Strike launched by Choose Democracy
Free E-Book, Tax Strike Tactics by David Gross
Anyone can file the Peace Tax Return — whether you are low income, high income, protesting, resisting, or refusing.
Contact NWTRCC
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC)
P.O. Box 5616
Milwaukee, WI 53205
(262) 399-8217
(800) 269-7464
National Affiliates
Community Peacemaker Teams, Center on Conscience & War, Choose Democracy, Episcopal Peace Fellowship, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Mennonite Central Committee, National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, Nonviolence International, Sojourners, War Resisters League, War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund