War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support from the Military

If you don’t believe in war, why pay for it?

War Tax Resistance: A Guide to Withholding Your Taxes from the Military, written by Ed Hedemann and Ruth Benn, is an indispensable resource to help reduce our complicity with ongoing U.S. war-making, as well as guiding the reader through a type of protest the government finds difficult to ignore.

Based on the experiences of thousands of war tax resisters, this book covers the whys and hows of resistance, potential consequences of violating tax laws, common myths about resistance, along with budget analysis, history, philosophy, and community organizing campaigns. The text is enlivened with dozens of inspiring, real-life stories of resistance.

War Resisters League was founded in 1923 and began supporting war tax resisters not long after World War II. For decades the authors, Ed Hedemann and Ruth Benn, have openly refused to pay federal income taxes to protest military spending and have redirected their tax dollars to humanitarian causes instead of the IRS. Both serve as counselors for those considering taking the dramatic step of resisting their taxes.

“Though the IRS is concerned about the money, it is more concerned that the idea of people saying NO not get out of hand. That’s why we have to continue to build a movement of resisting authority.” – Ralph DiGia

Updates to this guide are made annually or as-needed. A page-by-page update for the print book is online here and available as PDF download.

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