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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
Bringing War Home
When we talk about war tax resistance and why we do it, we tend to focus on the Pentagon and its warmongering abroad. Recently I was doing research for the back of the WRL pie chart and the true horror...Continue reading→
War Tax Resistance as Self-Care
Last week on Twitter, I saw that David Gross retweeted a message from author Sofia Samatar in which she described war tax resistance as self-care. I was immediately taken with this concept, and while Sofia’s plate was too full to...Continue reading→
David and Jan Hartsough (2014)
Dear Friends, Following is our letter to the IRS refusing to pay for killing other people, for wars and preparation for wars. Instead, we have made a check to the Department of Health and Human Services for 53% of our taxes owed...Continue reading→
7 Weeks Until #TaxDay !
Tax Day, April 15, is in just seven short weeks. Every year, NWTRCC network affiliates take action to bring attention to the United States’ military budget and to the tactic of war tax resistance (here’s last year’s Tax Day report)....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