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  • War Tax Resistance Guide
    • War Taxes

    War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support from the Military

    Now taking pre-orders!

    Publishing date February 28, 2025 This  6th edition is updated from the 2003 War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support from the Military, The most comprehensive book available on war tax resistance, covering everything from legal issues to the history of war tax resistance, to the hows and whys. Written by Ed Hedemann and Ruth Benn.
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  • Your tax dollars at work? DON'T pay!
    • War Taxes

    “Your tax dollars at work? DON’T pay!” Poster

    “Your tax dollars at work? DON’T pay!”, by Peg Averill
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  • "No Tax $$ for Genocide in Gaza!" banner in action at Coast Guard Academy May '24 graduation, New London, CT (photo by Daz Park)
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    • War Taxes

    Solidarity Banners for Gaza

    If you are requesting a banner, please be sure to fill out our online request form hereThe War Resisters League (WRL) is proud to offer two powerful banner designs to support activism and advocacy efforts concerning the disastrous situation in Gaza. WRL is subsidizing the production of these banners, making them available at a greatly reduced cost…
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    • War Taxes

    Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes FY2025

    FY 2025 pie charts are OUT OF STOCK due to high demand.

    We will be producing a FY 2026 flyer by April. If you need copies before that, you can also download the flyers and print them locally:
    Fiscal Year 2025 (Released March 2024) Pie Chart Flyer in English, in color (pdf) in English, black & white (pdf)
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    • War Taxes

    War Tax Resistance: A Guide To Withholding Your Support from the Military (from 2003)

    *New Edition Coming Soon*

    The most comprehensive book available on war tax resistance, covering everything from legal issues to the history of war tax resistance, to the hows and whys. Written by Ed Hedemann. Published by the War Resisters League in 2003. 144-pages.
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    • War Taxes

    How the Pie Chart Figures Were Determined – FY2012

    How These Figures Were Determined “Current military” includes Dept. of Defense ($707 billion) and the military portion from other departments as noted in current military box above ($162 billion). “Past military” represents veterans’ benefits plus 80% of the interest on the debt.* For further explanation, please go to www.warresisters.org. These figures are from an analysis…
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    • War Taxes

    FY2012 WRL PIE CHART FLYER – Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes

     The War Resisters League spends a lot of time, energy and money to create this resource. Please credit when using. For permissions to reprint, email us at wrl [at] warresisters.org The War Resisters League’s famous “pie chart” flyer analyzes the Federal Budget.  The Fiscal Year 2012 Pie Chart was released in February 2011. FY2012 PIE…
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    • War Taxes

    Federal Pie Chart Flyers from Past Years

    Each year, WRL analyzes federal funds outlays as presented in detailed tables in “Analytical Perspectives” of the Budget of the United States Government. For the current pie chart flyer, go to www.warresisters.org/federalpiechart. Download PDF Files of past Pie Chart Flyers: Fiscal Year 2025 (Released March 2024) Pie Chart Flyer in English, in color (pdf) in…
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    • War Taxes

    Wall Street = War Street

    Where Your Income Tax Money Really Goes – FY2013 (Released in Feb 2012) Once again “mission accomplished” was announced, and the Iraq War was declared over in 2011. U.S. troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan in 2013, yet Pentagon spending continues virtually unabated. More than 200,000 private contractors, hired by corporations with Pentagon money, carry…
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    • War Taxes

    How the Pie Chart Figures Were Determined – FY2013

    How These Figures Were Determined Because the President is late with the Fiscal Year 2014 budget, and Congress has not passed the FY2013 budget (was to begin Oct. 1, 2012), the figures in the large pie chart are projections from tables in Analytical Perspectives, Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2013 (published Feb….
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