<div class="gmail_quote">On 26 September 2011 16:23, Dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan_ust@yahoo.com">dan_ust@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
And many other places. And, in US history, the Whiskey Rebellion among other times. (In one way, one might view the run up to the secession from the British Empire as mass tax evasion followed by tax protest followed by actual hostilities.)<br clear="all">
</blockquote></div><br>There is however a difference between a tax strike and ordinary tax evasion, where the goal is not necessarily that of obtaining the abolishment/reduction of a tax or challenging the power imposing it, but rather simply that of... avoiding payment.<br>
<br>One reason anti-tax movements in Italy have never been very strong, and mostly limited to political and theoretical debate, is that at a time around one third of the Italian economy was not paying taxes at all, and tax evaders usually are reluctant to attract attention on themselves or even to the class and sector they belong to.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>