More reasons I want to move back home
Jan. 24th, 2003 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroFrom www.cbc.ca
This is the end part of an article on the Canadian anti-war movement:
Conscientious objection
Conscientious objection involves withholding personal income taxes and diverting them instead to an anti-war fund.
In 1979, the Mennonites and Quakers established Conscience Canada, a group whose goal it is to promote and support conscientious objection. Taxpayers can choose to withhold seven to eight per cent of their taxes and divert the money to a Peace Tax trust fund used to protest war.
The percentage donated is the estimated portion of all federal income taxes earmarked for the military.
Since that time, a handful of private members' bills have been introduced – unsuccessfully – to Parliament, aimed at securing the right for Canadians to request their tax dollars be used only for peaceful purposes.
While it isn't known how many Canadians withhold their taxes in protest of war, the Mennonite Church reported in 1994 that more than $60,000 had been diverted from federal taxes into the group's peace trust.
Yet another thing I didn't know when I lived there, but I never really made enough money to pay a significant amount of tax either.
This is the end part of an article on the Canadian anti-war movement:
Conscientious objection
Conscientious objection involves withholding personal income taxes and diverting them instead to an anti-war fund.
In 1979, the Mennonites and Quakers established Conscience Canada, a group whose goal it is to promote and support conscientious objection. Taxpayers can choose to withhold seven to eight per cent of their taxes and divert the money to a Peace Tax trust fund used to protest war.
The percentage donated is the estimated portion of all federal income taxes earmarked for the military.
Since that time, a handful of private members' bills have been introduced – unsuccessfully – to Parliament, aimed at securing the right for Canadians to request their tax dollars be used only for peaceful purposes.
While it isn't known how many Canadians withhold their taxes in protest of war, the Mennonite Church reported in 1994 that more than $60,000 had been diverted from federal taxes into the group's peace trust.
Yet another thing I didn't know when I lived there, but I never really made enough money to pay a significant amount of tax either.
