Women's Tax Resistance League
The Women's Tax Resistance League (WTRL) was from 1909 to 1918 a direct action group associated with the Women's Freedom League that used tax resistance to protest against the disenfranchisement of women during the British women's suffrage movement.
Clemence Housman photographed during a suffragist demonstration.
Tax resistance is the refusal to pay tax because of opposition to the government that is imposing the tax, or to government policy, or as opposition to taxation in itself. Tax resistance is a form of direct action and, if in violation of the tax regulations, also a form of civil disobedience.
Gandhi picking up salt and disobeying the British salt production and tax laws
Egyptian peasants seized for non-payment of taxes during the Pyramid Age
The Boston Tea Party, 16 December 1773
Henry David Thoreau, author of Civil Disobedience