tax revolt
Anti-levy uprising
A tax revolt is organized resistance to taxation, ranging from protests and petition campaigns to outright refusal to pay.
The term often refers to political movements demanding lower taxes or limits on government taxing power: The property tax revolt of the 1970s reshaped California politics.
Tax revolts may be peaceful civic action or, historically, armed rebellion.
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- protestPublic expression of disapproval
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- Boston Tea Party1773 colonial harbor protest
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
defiance · proposition · ballot · grassroots · populist · pitchforks · angry · citizens · middle class · government · spending · levies · burden · refusal · movement · rally · town hall · petition
- American RevolutionDeclaration of Independence, Boston Tea Party, Continental Congress, founding fathers, Stamp Act
- taxationVAT, withholding, deductions, deduction, taxpayers
- economic protestlabor strike, general strike, rent strike, consumer boycott, picket
- French taxationcapitation, corvee, aides, stamp duty, customs duties
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
- fiscal policybudget deficit, deficit spending, national budget, budget surplus, budget deficits