It is a little known but salutary fact that every time a person pays council tax we make a small but significant contribution to war[1], thereby rendering ourselves liable to prosecution and punishment as an accessory to war crimes.
Under the laws of war, citizens are forbidden from taking part in war crimes and terrorist acts and are legally bound to disobey the orders of any government that supports or endorses such acts[2].
This universal duty to refuse to obey unlawful orders includes orders to pay tax (income tax, council tax, VAT, etc).
If governments use taxpayers’ money for criminal purposes such as waging an illegal war of aggression or engaging in acts of terrorism, the obligation of taxpayers to pay tax is reversed and becomes a legal duty to withhold tax.
The legislation makes it clear that if taxpayers continue to pay tax or tax collectors continue to collect tax, knowing that some of it will be used to wage war and contribute to the deaths of innocent men women and children, they become accessories to the crimes of their government and criminally liable for arrest, prosecution, and punishment as war criminals.
Contrary to UK governments’ repeated claims of legality, each of the 10 wars fought or supported by Britain since 2001 against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Palestine (Gaza), Lebanon, Yemen, Ukraine, Russia, and Iran is illegal and criminal in both international and domestic law.
By using cruise missiles, rockets, bombs, drones and radioactive munitions to attack and murder 3.5 million civilians since 2001, Britain’s leaders and taxpayers violated the binding terms of the UN Charter, the UN Declaration on Principles of International law, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Court Acts 2001 (and the Scottish equivalent), and the Terrorism Act 2000.
Many of us will find it hard to believe that our political, civil, judicial and military leaders and public officials could deceive Parliament, the armed forces and the public so completely over such an important issue as the illegality and criminality of war and its funding by taxation. But one only has to read the laws attached to establish the truth of this assertion.
If you are concerned that you have unwittingly supported war crimes and genocide, you will be relieved to know that the legislators provided innocent participants with a get-out clause[3].
As long as we end our part in the crimes and halt the payment of taxes or divert them into conditional trusts, to be withheld from the government and its agents[4] until it ends its support for war, mass murder and genocide we will not be punished by the International Criminal Court.
The fact, that councillors, council staff, and local residents can be arrested, tried and punished as war criminals alongside the civil, political and military leaders responsible for the illegal wars may come as an unwelcome shock to those who are not familiar with the law, but it should be no surprise to anyone who has experienced or considered the horrific consequences of modern warfare.
Waging a war of aggression, in which thousands of innocent men, women, and children are injured and murdered, is the world’s most evil act. Supporting aggressive warfare, by paying or collecting tax and providing funds, 15% of which are used by Parliament for war, mass murder, crimes against humanity and genocide, ranks alongside warfare as a monstrous crime.
So having read this article readers now have a decision to make.
Do we obey and uphold the laws of war and stop collecting and paying taxes thus forcing the UK government to end its wars and atrocities, or do we continue to support the wars and genocides by paying tax and thereby risk prosecution and punishment alongside our leaders as an accessory to mass murder, crimes against humanity and genocide?
Each of us must make this choice.
[1] All taxes, including council tax, are paid on receipt into Parliament’s Consolidated Fund from which 15% is then used to fund past, current and future wars.
[2] Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal 1946. ‘The very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual State. He who violates the laws of war cannot obtain immunity while acting in pursuance of the authority of the State, if the State in authorising action moves outside its competence under international law…’
[3] Article 25.3(f) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
[4] Anyone who collects taxes, duties, licence fees, fines etc by authority of an Act of Parliament is an agent of Government and is criminally liable for their actions. This means that staff of HMRC, councillors, and council staff collecting council tax, company directors collecting PAYE, as well as owners of businesses collecting VAT are accessories to war crimes and liable for arrest.
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