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The British women's suffrage movement, in particular the Women's Tax Resistance League, used tax resistance in their struggle, and explicitly saw themselves in a tradition of tax resistance that included John Hampden. According to one source, "tax resistance proved to be the longest-lived form of militancy, and the most difficult to prosecute."
History of War Tax Resistance by Peace Tax Seven (U.S./UK focus) Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau; Silence and Courage: Income Taxes, War and Mennonites 1940-1993; The Tax Resistance League — tax resistance in the women's suffrage movement; The Theory, Practice & Influence of Thoreau's Civil Disobedience by Lawrence Rosenwald
The WTRL badge designed by Mary Sargant Florence. Clemence Housman photographed during a suffragist demonstration. The Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) was from 1909 to 1918 a direct action group associated with the Women's Freedom League that used tax resistance to protest against the disenfranchisement of women during the British women's suffrage movement.
LONDON — The countryside came to the capital as thousands of farmers packed into London streets around Britain’s Parliament to protest changes to tax rules. U.K. farmers furious over changes ...
British tax resisters (2 C, 12 P) Tithe War (8 P) Pages in category "Tax resistance in the United Kingdom" ... Freeman on the land movement;
The 24-day march lasted from 12 March 1930 to 6 April 1930 as a direct action campaign of tax resistance and nonviolent protest against the British salt monopoly. Another reason for this march was that the Civil Disobedience Movement needed a strong inauguration that would inspire more people to follow Gandhi's example.
In November 1989 the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was set up largely by the Militant tendency as a national body which included many Anti-Poll Tax Unions. [2]Prior to the first conference of the Fed, a steering committee was organised by 20 regional anti-poll tax federations, with Tommy Sheridan as chair and had gained the support of 15 Labour MPs.
Linda Upham-Bornstein's "Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender" delivers an evenhanded view of American tax resistance movements.