Meaning of tax resistance | Babel Free

Definitions

Refusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.

uncountable

Examples

“In European settings, tax resistance stopped being a collective form of protest in the nineteenth century, when connections among representation, citizenship, and taxation were affirmed.”

“Some level of tax resistance must be expected under any system of public policy. But if popular support of and confidence in government is constant, tax resistance also should be constant.”

“The case of tax resistance highlights the difficulties of drawing a line, in practice, between cases of civil disobedience and conscientious objection.”

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