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Tim Louis Withholds Tax Over Military Spending :CRA SOTW

Tim Louis withholds tax over military spending
By Carlito Pablo

Add one more file to Tim Louis’s activist credentials. Starting this
tax season, the former Vancouver councillor and left-wing lawyer won’t
be paying his full income tax in protest of Canada’s military spending
and the country’s military presence in Afghanistan.

“I’m very inspired by this movement that I’ve recently become aware
of, whereby people are withholding a certain percentage of their
income taxes and placing that money instead to an organization that
holds that money in trust,” Louis told the Straight.

Louis, a fan of Cuba’s Fidel Castro and the late Argentine-born
international revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara, was referring to
Conscience Canada, a group that advocates conscientious objection to
what it calls “forced military tax conscription”.

Conscience Canada suggests withholding about eight percent of an
individual’s income tax, which is roughly the same percentage Canada
spends from the national budget on the military. The monies are
deposited in a “peace tax trust fund” administered by the group. This
practice isn’t recognized by the Canada Revenue Agency.

“It would be an honour,” Louis said when told that he may be courting
action from the CRA. He added that he plans to help popularize this
form of protest by putting a link to Conscience Canada on his law
firm’s Web site.

Conscience Canada started in 1978, and it currently counts 197 members
across the country, according to board director Jan Slakov.

The Salt Spring Island, B.C.–based Slakov explained to the Straight
that the peace-tax trust fund will hold unpaid income taxes until the
government recognizes objection to military taxation as a legal right
and creates a special account that will allocate these funds for
nonmilitary purposes.


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