I looked up "boycott" on answers.com and it said refrain from buying and such. I am writing a story where part of it's history was a boycott agaisn't taxes and nobody really "buys" taxes. (At least, to my knowledge...) So I was just a bit puzzled.
2007-10-15 04:53:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
Some people boycott (don't pay) tax every year, until they eventually get caught.
The law recently took 2 kooks out of a house in (I think) NH, who had barricaded themselves in and declared that there is no law requiring them to pay tax. You can find various kooks on the internet who make this ridiculous claim.
2007-10-15 06:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by r_kav 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A boycott against taxes would be either
a) refraining to buy things that are subject to tax (this would be legal, although somewhat unusual)
b) an organized effort to illegally refrain from paying a tax that is owed (this is probably what the story meant)
2007-10-15 15:07:30 · answer #2 · answered by StephenWeinstein 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In theory everybody could just refuse to pay their taxes,and file W-4's so that little if any income tax would be taken out. But since most people have better sense than to get involved in something like that, isn't likely to happen.
2007-10-15 13:12:50 · answer #3 · answered by Judy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The analogy you are fishing for is civil disobedience where everybody refused to pay. You can speculate to your hearts desire about how likely this is to happen.
2007-10-15 13:15:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it also means refusal to patronize, or to support, as a cause
2007-10-15 11:58:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋