--- title: Some Americans Are Refusing to Pay Their Taxes in Protest of President Trump description: A growing number of Americans are planning to withhold their federal tax payments in protest of President Donald Trump's policy agenda authors: - name: Aric Jenkins url: https://money.com/author/aric-jenkins/ at_money_since: 2017 articles: 48 covers: - Taxes - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Lifestyle - Shopping - Technology social: - https://x.com/aricwithan_a former_staff: true published: '2017-02-15T19:04:18.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T05:13:36.000Z' section: Taxes tags: - onetime - Taxes word_count: 266 canonical: https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We may earn a fee if you click on the links below. Compensation does not determine ranking. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jill Soltau](https://img.money.com/2017/02/trump-taxes.jpg) *Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with retail industry leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 15, 2017.* Some Americans are reportedly planning to [withhold their federal tax payments](https://time.com/4590994/popular-vote-tax-pledge/) in protest of President Donald Trump's [policy agenda](https://time.com/4579404/donald-trump-policy-video/). Their reasons include adamant opposition to the president's proposed [Mexican border wall](https://time.com/4650732/donald-trump-mexico-border-wall-pay/) along with fears that their federal tax dollars will contribute to the "destruction of the environment" and an expansion of the country's nuclear arsenal, according to a number of interviews conducted by the [*Guardian*](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/tax-refusing-pay-protest-trump). High-profile names like [Mia Farrow](https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/824745594459738112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) and Gloria Steinem have voiced their support for the tax resistance. Citing her 1968 tax protest of the Vietnam War, Steinem told the *Guardian* that she's "going to do this again by sending what I think should go to Planned Parenthood, deducting it from my Federal IRS return, and including a letter saying so." Others say they are withholding payment until Trump releases [his own tax returns](https://time.com/4642465/trump-inauguration-tax-returns-petition/), since they believe the documents would prove that he's not fit to be president. Mass Anti-Trump demonstrations are [planned on Tax Day](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/april-15-tax-day-trump-protest_us_58856577e4b0e3a73569f9ca), April 15 (though taxes this year are due on the 18th), around the nation. The *Guardian* reports that there's even talk of California becoming an [“organized non-payer”](http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/01/27/california-could-cut-off-feds-in-response-to-trump-threats/) if Trump cuts funding to the state's "sanctuary cities" — Los Angeles, San Francisco and Sacramento — in order to offset the President's punishment for harboring undocumented immigrants. Some individuals expressed a fear of imprisonment for refusing to pay their taxes, but Ruth Benn, coordinator of the [National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee](http://nwtrcc.org/), told the *Guardian* that "there have been very few people who have spent time in jail for not paying taxes as an explicit act of political resistance.” ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Taxes", "item": "https://money.com/taxes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Tax Relief", "item": "https://money.com/tax-relief/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Some Americans Are Refusing to Pay Their Taxes in Protest of President Trump" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/", "name": "Some Americans Are Refusing to Pay Their Taxes in Protest of President Trump", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2017-02-15T19:04:18.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:13:36.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Some Americans Are Refusing to Pay Their Taxes in Protest of President Trump", "articleSection": "Taxes", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2017/02/trump-taxes.jpg", "width": 4578, "height": 3052, "caption": "Donald Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu, Jill Soltau" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Aric Jenkins", "url": "https://money.com/author/aric-jenkins/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/aric-jenkins/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/aricwithan_a" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2017-02-15T19:04:18.000Z", "description": "A growing number of Americans are planning to withhold their federal tax payments in protest of President Donald Trump's policy agenda", "abstract": "A growing number of Americans are planning to withhold their federal tax payments in protest of President Donald Trump's policy agenda", "@id": "https://money.com/federal-taxes-protest-president-donald-trump/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T05:13:36.000Z", "wordCount": 266, "keywords": [ "onetime", "Taxes" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Tax", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Back taxes", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_taxes" ] } ] } ] } ```