E-mail: wer@well.sf.ca.us for info about this document ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the WELL's gopher server - for info e-mail gopher@well.sf.ca.us ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book review from the Whole Earth Review magazine. E-mail to (wer@well.sf.ca.us) for more info about the magazine. War Tax Resistance (A Guide to Withholding Your Support From the Military) Ed Hedemann, 1992; 131 pp. $14.95 ($17.95 postpaid) from New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143; 800/333-9093 About half of your income tax goes to support the military, past and present. About 80 percent of the national debt is attributable to the military. For moral reasons or just plain outrage at expensive toilet seats and bombers that dont fly, there is cause for both liberal and conservative to decry the spending of such huge sums on killing when there are so many more pressing needs. What can you do about this matter? Can you refuse to support the military by paying only half your taxes? If you do that, what will happen next? Are there ways to avoid paying for the military and stay out of trouble? (Yes.) This book, now in its fourth edition since 1981, presents the tax resistance arguments, the rules of the game, your options for personal action, and the probable results. Maddening, tantalizing and realistic. --J. Baldwin Excerpts from the book: ---- In 1972 the FBI called [Presbyterian minister Maurice] McCrackin to talk about money they said he owed. He told them it would be a waste of their time because he wouldnt discuss it. A few days later a subpoena from the Justice Department was served ordering him to come in and pay the fine, but saying nothing about unpaid taxes. He didnt appear and never heard from them again. ---- ---- Criminal Court and Jail It is very rare that the IRS will use the courts and the threat of jail to force payment or punish a war tax resister. A classified IRS directive handed down on July 15, 1980, told its agents not to pursue felony prosecution of tax refusers for fraud or failure to file unless underpayments average at least $2,500 a year for three years straight. ---- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ E-mail wer@well.sf.ca.us for more info about this document. This document was provided by the Whole Earth Review magazine. Whole Earth Review (WER) is published 4 times each year by the Point Foundation, a non-profit US corporation. Trial subscriptions to WER are available for US $20 per year for individuals. $35 per year for institutions; single copies $7. Add $8 per year for Canadian and $6 for foreign surface mail; add $12 per year for airmail anywhere. Most articles in Whole Earth Review are available on-line via Dialog, Mead & BRS. Whole Earth Review is indexed by "Access: The supplementary Index to Periodicals", Alternative Press Index, Magazine Index, Consumers Index, HumantitiesIndex, Book Review Index, Academic Index, and General Periodical Index. For copyright or other information please contact: Whole Earth Review 27 Gate Five Road Sausalito, CA,94965 USA Voice Phone: (415) 332-1716 Fax: (415) 332-3110 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- .