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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
Shirley Whiteside
I forgot to pay my income taxes this year. Why would a person do that, you say? Won’t they just steal it from you anyway? Let’s just say if all we have is today, it was what was right for me...Continue reading→
Bronwyn Shiffer
April 15, 2003 Dear Internal Revenue Service of the United States: In recent years I have become more aware of where my tax money goes. This year, I have made a decision of conscience to redirect 47%, the amount of...Continue reading→
Peter Meyers (2003)
Internal Revenue Service Andover, MA 05501-0002 April 15 2003 Dear Internal Revenue Service Person: I enclose this letter with my completed tax form as an explanation about why I cannot, in good conscience, pay the tax money that is demanded...Continue reading→
David Meyers (2003)
April 15, 2003 Dear IRS: I had a dream the other night. Maybe you had one like it too. It was based on one of those mind-numbing commercials for credit cards. That guy with the syrupy TV voice did the...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