Most people in Britain never think to ask or answer this question – it seems nonsensical. We assume that governments act lawfully and use our money solely on lawful services needed to run the country, such as health, education, defence, the justice system, etc.
We also assume that everyone who benefits from these services has a duty to pay for them, and if you fail to contribute your fair share of taxes, you are not only being unfair to everyone else, but you could be arrested and imprisoned for tax evasion.
Normally that is the case. However, there are circumstances in law when government orders are illegal or criminal. The judges at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal ruled, when sentencing Germany’s leaders to death in 1946, that citizens have a duty to disobey government orders when those orders are manifestly unlawful.
Waging or funding a war of aggression against another state in which people are injured or killed because of their nationality is not only manifestly unlawful, it is a crime of genocide.
Surely it is leaders who take us to war who commit genocide, not taxpayers?
In law, it is a statutory criminal offence in Britain[1] and 187 other nation states[2] to hand over money (taxes) if you have reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used for criminal purposes such as funding warfare, terrorism, mass murder, or genocide.
In such a case, anyone in the UK who collects or provides taxes to government, knowing that some of it may be used for such purposes, is complicit in the crimes and can be arrested and prosecuted, alongside the leaders who started the war, for fundraising for purposes of terrorism and/or aiding and abetting crimes against humanity or genocide[3].
So it is important to be clear about the uses to which your money will be put before handing it over. If you have any suspicion whatsoever that the money could fund a criminal enterprise of any sort, you must check (it’s called due diligence in the financial world) that all of it will be used solely for lawful purposes and none of it will be used for criminal purposes that may cause harm to another human being.
This is where our problems start. Very few of us in the UK are aware of what happens to our money (taxes) after we hand it over. The truth is that since 1787, all government revenue, including income and council taxes, inheritance tax, capital gains tax, VAT, PAYE, National Insurance contributions), corporation tax, stamp duty, rents, repayments of student loans, and more than 200 other sources of income, are paid into one central government account called the Consolidated Fund.
And then all government expenses are paid out from the same Fund.
So for example, if a council employee sends you a demand to pay council tax or a parking fine and you pay it, you, the council employees who ordered the demand to be sent, and your local councillors commit the criminal offences of ‘fundraising for the purposes of terrorism’ and ‘conduct ancillary to genocide’.
When a tax collector (a Crown Agent) such as a company director deducts PAYE and NIC from their employees’ salaries, or charges VAT on customers’ purchases, and then transfers the money to HMRC, knowing that some of it will be passed to the Ministry of Defence to buy guns or high-explosive bombs, rockets or missiles for use by our own or other states’ military forces to attack, injure or kill people, he or she is complicit in our leaders’ crimes. They can be arrested, prosecuted, and sent to prison for up to 30 years for knowingly funding criminal activities such as warfare, terrorism, mass murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide.
But surely taxpayers can’t be prosecuted for funding warfare?
Yes we can. It is never legal or lawful to wage or to fund war. War was outlawed in 1928 when Britain signed and ratified the Treaty for the Renunciation of War. Since then we have signed and ratified the UN Charter and several treaties and laws agreeing on behalf of the British people…
- Never to wage war
- Never to threaten or use force[4]
- Never to harm or kill people because of their nationality[5]
- Never to interfere in other nation’s affairs[6]
- To respect human rights[7]
- To enforce the rule of law[8]
- To settle disputes peacefully[9] and
- To work together with every state on developing a just and peaceful world.
But for more than a century British governments have repeatedly broken our treaties and binding agreements governing warfare and relationships between states.
Despite promising faithfully never to wage war, never to attack another state and never to kill people because of their nationality, we’ve waged or supported 85 illegal wars since 1945 murdering or causing the deaths of at least 7.5 million adults and 2.5 million children.
So, according to law, every individual and business taxpayer who has paid tax and thus taken part in funding the 10 wars of aggression waged or supported by Britain since 2001[10] is an accessory to the world’s worst crimes and liable for arrest and prosecution for complicity in murder, war crimes, crimes against humanity, or genocide.
But surely this doesn’t apply to council tax? Isn’t council tax used solely on local services to pay for police, schools, lighting the roads, taking away the rubbish and so on?
No, this is not correct. The truth is that all the money collected in council tax, business rates, rents, charges, fines, parking fees etc. is credited initially to Parliament’s Consolidated Fund. All taxes go into one central account and only then does the Government make grants to local councils.
Local councils are owned and controlled by central Government not by local people. Councils do what they are ordered to do by Parliament. They have no say at all over how much money must be sent to the police, to education services or the fire brigade. These decisions are made centrally and local councillors must follow government orders.
So how much of my money is spent on illegal or criminal activities?
This is not easy to discover. We make the assumption that when the government tells us that it will spend £60 billion on defence it will spend £60 billion on defence. But this is wrong.
The only two occasions in the past 80 years when Britain needed to defend itself from an attack by the armed forces of another state occurred when Argentinian forces attacked and occupied the Falkland Islands and Iraqi forces attacked and occupied Kuwait. On every other occasion taxpayers money was, and it still is today, being used for purposes of offence rather than defence.
When British military forces attack another state (or euphemistically, ‘put down an insurgency’), summarily murdering men, women and children, our governments describe it as self-defence, but in reality, it is a criminal act of terrorism or war.
So rather than calling our government’s military activities the Ministry of Defence, we should start calling it the Ministry of War, Mass Murder and Genocide. That, after all, is a far more accurate description of its activities.
Although its name was changed from the Ministry of War in 1964, the activity it governs today remains the same: attacking and murdering anyone who gets in the way of our own and Israel’s imperialist agenda.
Since 2001, UK governments, at Israel’s behest, have spent at least £2.5 trillion of taxpayers’ money funding past, current and future wars. MPs used our money to finance modern military forces’ weapons of mass destruction in illegal wars mostly against smaller, weaker, peaceful nation states, murdering 2.5 million adults and 1 million children, injuring many more, and driving 25 million refugees into exile and destitution.
Not one of our victims was allowed to defend themselves and their families in court before they were summarily executed or injured and their homes and livelihoods destroyed by order of Britain’s malevolent political leaders funded by taxpayers.
Every UK taxpayer knows that some of the money we pay in tax is used for criminal purposes of mass murder and the genocide of innocent people in foreign states or wherever our criminal leaders want to steal resources, eliminate the local population or impose ‘democracy’ on others. Is this what you want your money to be spent on?
So next time that you pay council tax, VAT, income tax, stamp duty, vehicle tax, or any other tax, be aware that of every £100 that you hand over you will contribute £15 to war, mass murder and the genocide of innocent people.
And because you know this when you hand over your money you render yourself liable for arrest and prosecution at the Old Bailey or the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
So the answer to the question ‘when is it a crime to collect or pay tax?’ is ‘whenever we have reasonable cause to suspect that some of our money may be used for criminal purposes such as terrorism or war’.
Technically, anyone who has paid tax in Britain since 7 October 2001 (the start of the illegal war in Afghanistan) is an accessory to our leaders’ crimes and is complicit in aiding and abetting the world’s worst crimes.
All this from the democratically-elected leaders of a nation that promotes itself as a civilised, law-abiding exemplar of justice, fair play, and the rule of law.
Nothing could be further from the truth. The truth is that British governments have been taken over by malevolent corporate and financial Zionist forces working for Israeli and US governments, and our political, civil, judicial, and military leaders cannot be trusted to operate legally or lawfully solely in the interests of the people of Britain.
So now, because we know that Parliament spends 15% of our taxes on military affairs, planning to kill and then killing innocent men women and children, we have a legal duty to withhold all money (tax payments) from UK public authorities until our leaders obey the law, and end their support for war and all preparations for future wars.
Only when our support for wars and war crimes has ended, when Parliament is acting in full accord with the UN Charter and the UN Declaration on Principles of International Law, and those political, civil, judicial and military leaders responsible for starting the illegal wars and murdering thousands of innocent people have been arrested and prosecuted for their crimes, can we lawfully recommence the collection and payment of taxes.
It’s down to each of us. Pay or withhold tax? The choice is ours.
[1] Sections 15 – 18 of the Terrorism Act 2000 or section 52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001
[2] All of whom have signed and ratified the Terrorist Financing Convention 1999
[3] Accessories and Abettors Act 1861.
[4] The United Nations Act 1946 The only occasion when the use of armed force is lawful[1] is when a State is under attack from the armed forces of another State and needs to defend itself and repel its attackers.
[5] The Genocide Convention 1948, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 1998, the International Criminal Court Act 2001, the , the International Criminal Court (Scotland) Act 2001.
[6] The UN Declaration on the Principles of International Law … (UNGAR 2625 – 1970)
[7] The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, The European Convention of Human Rights, The Human Rights Act 1998 which all highlight the primacy of the right to life.
[8] The UN Charter 1945, the Declaration on the Rule of Law 2012
[9] The Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928, the UN Charter 1945.
[10] in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Gaza (Palestine), Ukraine, Russia, the Yemen, Lebanon and Iran.
