Conscientious objection to military taxation

Conscientious objection to military taxation is the refusal to pay some or all taxes because they support military activity, based on moral, religious, or political opposition to war.

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War tax resistance: The refusal to pay taxes, or portions of taxes, believed to support war or military spending. This broader practice includes conscientious objection to military taxation and its nonreligious forms.
Quaker peace testimony: The Quaker commitment to reject war and pursue peaceful ways of resolving conflict. Quaker communities helped make refusal to finance war an expression of religious conscience.
Conscientious objector: A person who refuses military service because of conscience, often on religious, moral, or political grounds. Military-tax objectors extend conscientious opposition from serving in war to financing it.
Freedom of conscience: The right to hold, change, and act on religious or moral convictions without coercion. Objectors claim this liberty should protect refusal to finance military activity.
Tax resistance: The deliberate refusal to pay taxes as protest, civil disobedience, or opposition to government policy. Military-tax objection is one focused form of resistance to taxation.
Christian pacifism: The Christian belief that violence and participation in war are incompatible with following Jesus. It supplies a long-standing religious basis for refusing military taxation.
Conscription: Compulsory enrollment of people into a country's armed forces. Refusal of military taxation opposes financial support rather than compulsory personal service.
Freedom of religion: The right to hold and practice religious beliefs, individually or collectively, without undue state interference. Religious objectors may frame military-tax refusal as an exercise of this liberty.
Tax redirection: The voluntary transfer of disputed tax money to nonmilitary or charitable purposes instead of the government. Some objectors redirect the amount they withhold to peaceful or humanitarian causes.
Peace churches: Christian denominations that have historically rejected war and military service on religious grounds. Their traditions connect military-tax refusal with broader commitments to nonviolence.