英和和英

名詞

tax resistance ‎(uncountable)

1. Refusal to pay taxes as a form of political protest against the government or its policies.
   • 1997, Roy Bin Wong, China Transformed, ISBN 0801483271:

     In European settings, tax resistance stopped being a collective form of protest in the nineteenth century, when connections among representation, citizenship, and taxation were affirmed.

   • 2009, Stein Ringen, The Possibility of Politics: A Study in the Political Economy of the Welfare State, ISBN 141283161X, page 54:

     Some level of tax resistance must be expected under any system of public policy. But if popular support of and confidence in government is constant, tax resistance also should be constant.

   • 2010, Gideon Calder & ‎Emanuela Ceva, Diversity in Europe, ISBN 1136868283:

     The case of tax resistance highlights the difficulties of drawing a line, in practice, between cases of civil disobedience and conscientious objection.