Talk:Tax revolt

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This page is currently totally US-specific. Possibly it should be expanded to cover tax revolts in other countries, but that sounds like a large and rather sprawling project, since disagreements about taxes are I'm sure a common thread in just about every country. I think it would make more sense to have two articles specific to the two main topics discussed here {in the Great Depression, and in the late 70s}.

Requested move

Tax revolt → Tax revolt in the United States This article deals almost exclusively about this phenomenon in the United States. Please discuss at Talk:Tax protester#Requested move. —  AjaxSmack  06:33, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Now here: Talk:Tax_protester/Archive_06#Requested_move MakeBelieveMonster (talk) 13:25, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

Older history - Boston Tea Party, Carthage

The article makes it seem as if the first people to protest taxes lived in the 20th century in the US. How would this explain one of the seminal moments in the founding of the US, the Boston Tea Party? Shouldn't the topic "Tax Revolt" contain information regarding the general concept of tax revolt instead of just in the US and just in the 20th century? XgenX (talk) 19:39, 11 February 2010 (UTC)

Tax resistance/Tax revolt

From their respective articles:

Tax resistance is the refusal to willingly pay a tax because of opposition to the institution that is imposing the tax, or to some of that institution’s policies.

A tax revolt is a political struggle to repeal, limit, or roll back a government-imposed tax.

Is the only distinction that the first is against the government's policies and the latter against the tax itself? (But couldn't the tax be seen as a part of the government's policies?) Unless more information is presented to differentiate between the two, I think this article should be merged into the Tax Resistance article. AshcroftIleum (talk) 02:01, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

I agree, I have proposed a merger to History of tax resistance. Nirvana2013 (talk) 15:15, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

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== WP Tax Class == Start class because this article needs a lot more references. These references would be further helpful for defining the concept and contrasting it to other similar topics. Tax revolt here seems defined by the wikipedia community as something that occurs in the USA, but I wouldn't be surprised that tax revolts have occurred elsewhere far before the USA was even created. Tax revolts occurred before in France, Egypt, China and so on. Would these be considered tax revolutions or tax uprisings? Tax resistance? I think some peer-reviewed academic source needs to be referenced for the definition aspect of the article (the first sentence describing the topic).EECavazos (talk) 19:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC) == WP Tax Priority == High priority because this is an important topic in taxation with likelihood of high traffice and a real possibility that it is a worldwide concept.EECavazos (talk) 19:46, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

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