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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
Reflections on War Tax Resistance Actions
By Michael McCarthy In May 2007, I wrote an article (pictured below) for the Port Huron, Michigan Times Herald called “Protesters want to pay taxes, but don’t want immoral war” about our project, “Iraq Peace Bonds.” We’d formed a local...Continue reading→
Sixty Years with The Catholic Worker And Fifty-Eight Years of Effective War Tax Refusal
By Karl Meyer July 12, 2017 marked my anniversary for 60 years of active engagement with Catholic Worker communities. On that day in 1957, at lunch hour, I hurried out from my job as a stock clerk at Barnes and...Continue reading→
Time for a Change
By Ruth Benn Change is coming for NWTRCC and for me. After nearly 15 years as NWTRCC Coordinator, I am planning to end my tenure at the May 2018 gathering in Los Angeles. Our November meeting in Massachusetts established a...Continue reading→
Building A Local War Tax Refusal Support Group
by Daniel Woodham with Katherine Betts This is the story of how 2 people formulated and carried out a gathering of people interested in learning more about how to not pay for war. It is easy to replicate, and so...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