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tax resistance

tax resistance noun: refusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.

Noun

tax resistance (uncountable)

  1. Refusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.
    • 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, →ISBN
    • Some 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

Questions about tax resistance

What does tax resistance mean?
Tax resistance means refusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.
What part of speech is tax resistance?
Tax resistance is a noun.

Words near tax resistance in the dictionary

  1. tax rate
  2. tax rates
  3. tax reduction
  4. tax reductions
  5. tax relief
  6. tax resistance
  7. tax resister
  8. tax resisters
  9. tax return
  10. tax returns
  11. tax revenue

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