Meanings
- uncountableRefusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.
The case of tax resistance highlights the difficulties of drawing a line, in practice, between cases of civil disobedience and conscientious objection.
2010, Gideon Calder, Emanuela Ceva, Diversity in Europe, →ISBN2 more 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.
1997, Roy Bin Wong, China Transformed, →ISBNSome 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.
2009, Stein Ringen, The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State, →ISBN, page 54
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