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Started by Alan Baggett
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:24
Tim Louis Withholds Tax Over Military Spending :CRA SOTW
Author: Alan Baggett
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:24
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:24
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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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miss a Tax Tale Miss a lot! Pop the link below into your browser to view the entire CRA SOTW Library! http://canada.revenue.agency.angelfire.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alan Baggett – Tax Collector’s Bible
Re: Tim Louis Withholds Tax Over Military Spending :CRA SOTW
Author: Diogenes
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:18
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:18
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"Alan Baggett" <canadarevenueagency1@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ee665ce2-d44c-4d3b-8499-76bed59cefff@w41g2000yqb.googlegroups.com... Tim Louis Withholds Tax Over Military Spending :CRA SOTW Tim Louis withholds tax over military spending -- I don't like military spending either, but I have better sense than to go to jail over some futile protest, so I pay my taxes.
Re: Tim Louis Withholds Tax Over Military Spending :CRA SOTW
Author: Best
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:49
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:49
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*If everyone withheld their taxes because of money being spent on something they disagreed with, then there would be little or no taxes paid!!! There are lots of ways to protest various expenditures, without breaking the law.
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