Tax resistance

A tax resister resists or refuses payment of a tax because of opposition to the institution collecting the tax. Often tax resistance comes from pacifists, conscientious objectors or members of religious groups, such as the Quakers, who choose not to fund violent government activities. It has also been a technique used by nonviolent resistance movements, such as India's campaign for independence led by Mahatma Gandhi.

Some tax resisters of note

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• Amos Bronson Alcott
• Joan Baez
• Anthony Benezet
• Robert Bly
• Ernest and Marion Bromley
• Noam Chomsky
• Dorothy Day
• David Dellinger
• Philip K. Dick
• Arthur Evans
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• John Fries
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Allen Ginsberg
• Paul Goodman
• Walter Gormly
• John Hampden
• Robin Harper
• Ammon Hennacy
• Karl Hess
• Julia "Butterfly" Hill
• Saint Hugh of Lincoln
• Raymond Hunthausen
• Rose Wilder Lane

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• Staughton Lynd
• Maurice McCrackin
• Karl Meyer
• Carol Moore
• A.J. Muste
• Juanita and Wally Nelson
• James Otsuka
• Utah Phillips
• Eroseanna Robinson
• Kirkpatrick Sale
• Pete Seeger
• J. Tony Serra
• Cindy Sheehan
• Gloria Steinem
• Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
• Henry David Thoreau
• Jerome Tuccille
• Gore Vidal
• Leo Volpe
• Edmund Wilson
• Claire Wolfe
• John Woolman
• John Howard Yoder

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