A peaceful, lawful way to withhold tax.
You don’t have to break the law to oppose war. By placing your taxes in trust, you can withhold them lawfully until they’re used for the public good, not cause harm.
- The legal foundation
The No Tax For War Taxation Trust
What exactly is a trust?
A trust is a legal instrument that lets you control how your money is used. Rather than pay tax directly to the government, where you have no say in financing war crimes, a trust lets you set legal conditions for when and how your funds are released. Until then, your money is safely ring-fenced inside the trust. Our Taxation Trust is drawn up so that it is…
- Conditional: Funds are only released when certain legal and ethical conditions are met.
Trusts are commonly used by wealthy families, corporations, and governments to protect assets and avoid misuse. We use them to withhold tax legally and to insist our money is used lawfully, ethically, and in line with international and UK law.
How a trust works.
When you set up a trust, your money or other assets are held within a legal structure. You appoint trustees (often including yourself) and set conditions governing how and when the funds can be released. With our conditional, Taxation Trust, we stipulate that can only happen when the government can show our money will not be used to support illegal wars or violations of international law.
How trusts are protected.
This approach is lawful but so far untested in court. No one has been prosecuted for using this Taxation Trust method.
Relevant UK and international law includes:
- Recognition of Trusts Act 1987
- International Criminal Court Act 2001
- Terrorism Act 2000 (Sections 15-19)
- Rome Statute (Article 25)
- Geneva Convention Articles 55 & 56
You’re protected so long as you can demonstrate transparency and your intent to pay once your trust conditions — drawn up in line with this legislation — are fully met.
"I call on those who have provided, and who continue to provide, Israel with the means necessary to prosecute its war to reflect carefully on the implications of their actions and the consequences for the Palestinian people. There cannot be business as usual in the face of genocide."
Micheal Martin | Irish Taoiseach
- How to start making war history
Four simple steps.
01. Set up trust
Use our template to create your personal or corporate deed of Taxation Trust. We’ve made it easy for you — just fill in the blanks with your details! There’s are versions for England and Wales and Scotland.
02. Set aside tax
Open a standalone bank account to ring-fence your tax funds and separate them from your day-to-day income and outgoings. You can also convert your tax pot into gold, silver, or other non-cash asset.
03. Inform HMRC
We’ve created a template letter to send to HMRC with a copy of your trust deed explaining what you’re doing — and why. Send by post and always use the signed-for service so you have proof of delivery!
04. End of year
If the Trust conditions are not met, write to HMRC revoking their right to the tax money, which now transfers to the secondary beneficiary (you). Return to Step 1 to create a new trust for the following year.
- Be on the right side of history
Why this matters.
You’re not refusing to pay tax. You’re ring-fencing it, until the UK government can prove it is acting within international law.
- By setting up a trust, you’re refusing to be complicit.
- You’re not breaking the law — you’re using it.
- You’re not hiding your money — you’re holding power to account.
- You’re not evading tax — you’re demanding justice.
