tax protest
Anti-levy civic action
Tax protest is organized resistance to taxation, ranging from legal advocacy to illegal refusal to pay.
Tax protesters may challenge specific taxes as unconstitutional or reject the legitimacy of taxation altogether.
The term often refers to movements claiming income tax is voluntary or invalid: The IRS treats tax protest arguments as frivolous.
Some tax protests have shaped history—the Boston Tea Party, Gandhi's salt march.
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- rallyGathering for a cause
- refusalAct of declining
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- tax disputesdispute resolution, penalty waiver, abatement, redetermination, reassessment
- economic activismboycott, divestment, shareholder activism, corporate accountability, proxy voting
- tax crimesundeclared income, unreported income, hidden income, fiscal evasion, underreporting
- tax issuesIRS notice, late filing, underpayment, wage garnishment, bank levy
- local taxesmillage, special assessment, levies, levy, rates
- property taxassessed value, property assessment, millage, property valuation, county assessor