Taxes for Peace - If you work for peace, stop paying for war

If you work for peace, stop paying for war

Why We're Here

This is a community space for people who oppose military taxation and want their taxes to support non-violent methods of peacebuilding, crisis intervention, and conflict resolution. It's a place to share ideas and resources, ask questions, and connect with other war tax resisters in your region.

Frequently Asked Questions

Click here to access the site FAQ. The FAQ explains how to navigate this site, add content, report problems, and help develop the site.

Latest Activity

Videos

Disappearing

Added by Joshua Mira Goldberg
Conscience Canada: Work for Peace - Stop Paying for War

Added by Joshua Mira Goldberg
UK Peace Tax Fund

Added by Joshua Mira Goldberg
Susan Quinlan: Refusing to pay for war

Added by Joshua Mira Goldberg
CodePink War Tax Revolt

Added by Joshua Mira Goldberg

Peace Tax Organizations Around the World

Want more information about war tax resistance and conscientious objection to military taxation? There are groups around the world working to reduce military spending and promote taxes for peace. For a directory of groups, see http://www.cpti.ws/addresses.html

Where are you? (add yourself to the War Tax Resister map)

Events

Add an Event

Forum

New British film on war tax resistance

Started by Joshua Mira Goldberg in Media Coverage Oct. 26, 2008.

CBC: Anti-abortion protestor must pay taxes

Started by Joshua Mira Goldberg in Media Coverage Oct. 26, 2008.

Nashua Telegraph - April 16, 2008 (NH, USA)

Started by Joshua Mira Goldberg in Media Coverage Apr. 29, 2008.

Blog Posts

My letter to Canada Revenue Agency re Statement of Account

July 19, 2008

Canada Revenue Agency
9755 King George Highway
Surrey, BC V3T 5E1

Greetings,

Yesterday I received a Statement of Account from CRA with dates from April 5, 2007 to July 9, 2008 (covering the 2006 and 2007 tax years).

Since 2002 I have been a conscientious objector to military taxation, each year at tax time diverting the military portion of my federal taxes to Conscience Canada’s Peace Tax Trust Fund and writing a letter to Canada Revenue Agency, submitted with my filed taxes, e… Continue

Posted by Joshua Mira Goldberg on July 19, 2008 at 8:10am — 2 Comments

Soon

I will be writing something soon about this year's tax return. Something unusual happened - not necessarily great but ---

Today, (Saturday) I also attended the Citizen's Inquiry on the Impacts of the Uranium Cycle, held at Hart House, U. of Toronto. Several of these have been held in centres in Estern Ontario - this was the first in Toronto. We even had the head of Greenpeace, Bruce Cox, and the Ontario leader of the Green Party, Frank Dejung. It was sponsored and organized by Paul York of Grad… Continue

Posted by Murray D. Lumley on April 26, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

FAQ for using this site

Below are some tips explaining how to use the Taxes for Peace site. Please feel free to contact us using the site Feedback form if you have questions. You might also find it helpful to read the Ning FAQ at http://help.ning.com.

1) How does this site work?

Ning is a social networking site that facilitations connections among people w

… Continue

Posted by Joshua Mira Goldberg on April 19, 2008 at 5:32pm

Support from strange places

Believe it or not...check out this report from one of Conscience Canada's members!

Here's a tale. I got the usual annual call from Canada Revenue to inform me of my unpaid taxes. The woman on the other end of the phone listened as I explained that I could not in conscience willingly pay for weapons and military support that would wreak more destruction in places like Afghanistan, and that every year I withhold this portion of my taxes and notify the PM and F

… Continue

Posted by Joshua Mira Goldberg on April 4, 2008 at 9:30pm — 1 Comment