History of tax resistance

Tax Resistance happens when a person or group refuses to pay taxes because they don't agree with the government spending their money in certain ways. Tax resistance is not a new idea. In fact, it goes back hundreds of years. Since the Middle Ages people have resisted taxes by not paying them. During the American Revolution, many people refused to pay taxes to the British government because they wanted to be independent and have their own government. During the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, African-Americans protested against paying taxes to a government that did not provide them with equal rights as other citizens. Tax resistance also happens today as some people refuse to pay taxes, usually to protest government policies they don't agree with.