WHEREAS Donald John Trump is the first President in 40 years not to be transparent with his tax returns…
WHEREAS Donald John Trump said that he was smart not to pay taxes and, by implication, that people who do pay taxes are stupid….
WHEREAS Donald John Trump’s lack of transparency raises unresolved, legitimate questions regarding possible conflicts of interest, Russian influence and control, and unconstitutional emoluments….
WHEREAS Donald John Trump’s principal advisor, Steve Bannon, asserts that the Trump Administration’s goal is to deconstruct U.S. institutions, and the I.R.S. is such an institution….
WHEREAS taxpayer money is being used to enhance Trump’s brand and his family’s foreign trips in pursuit of Trump business interests….
WHEREAS the fossil-fuel industry continues to receive enormous tax subsidies while the Trump Administration dismantles environmental protections….
WHERAS a great American tradition is tax protest and civil disobedience, from the Boston Tea Party through Henry David Thoreau….
It is therefore RESOLVED that individual taxpayers file required tax returns for the year 2016 on or before the due date of 18 April 2017 but place any tax payment due in escrow until Donald John Trump releases his own tax returns for the last five years.
NOTE: According to the IRS, “you will not have to pay a failure-to-file or failure-to-pay penalty if you can show that you failed to file or pay on time because of reasonable cause and not because of willful neglect.” See:
https://www.irs.gov/uac/failure-to-file-or-pay-penalties-eight-facts