A tax strike is the refusal of taxpayers to exhaust the owed taxes to the state. Withholding the tax serves as means to implement a request in relation to the state.

Contrary to the tax evasion a tax strike is defined openly and does not serve not direct personal enriching.

Tax strikes are illegal and represent thus a form of civilian disobedience. They occur in practice very rarely, also because the national authorities with exemplary complaints and sensitive punishments can react against individual tax strikers and on the other hand, because the mobilization of many citizens for these reasons is difficult. Public ones of calls to the tax strike can besides as causing the breach of law or punishable actions by the initiators are criminally punished.

The Sinnhaftigkeit of such actions is often doubted, since the taxes are then driven by the authorities on the way of the enforcement. The defaulting taxpayer has to then bear the cost (together with extra charges for late payment) of this procedure, so that no correct disadvantage develops for the state from this procedure.

This can lie differently, if, as in the USA already happen, the state is completely insolvent, and also any longer right-faithfully to disburse does not know civil service pay. This can occur due to tax strike or as other legal consequence (household refusal in the senate

Tried tax strikes

On 7 January 2003 the opposition of Venezuela began a tax strike with the support of a considerable part of the central and Oberschicht of the country. The tax strike should extract pecuniary resources from the government and force thus together with a general strike the president Hugo to the resignation. The goal was not achieved however. Many observers considered a tax strike in Venezuela not very promising in principle, since the tax evasion was anyway very common.

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