How to Strike

Striking For Tax Year 2024

Haven’t Done Your Federal Income Taxes Yet?

Getting a refund?

Submit your return NOW — e-file if you can. Get your funds back from the federal government as quickly as possible.

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Owe taxes?

You have options. People choose to:

Practice slow taxes.

Wait to file until April 15th. File by postal mail. Consider filing an extension to delay until October.

Or, pay no (or less) taxes to a King.

Don’t give to Trump’s regime. Either pay none or only a portion (as much as $1 less). Maybe redirect your taxes — funding agencies and work they’re illegally destroying.

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Striking For Tax Year 2025

Change your withholding at any time!

If You’re Employed by an Organization

  1. Download a W-4 form. Complete Step 1 of the form. Remember your filing status (single, married filing jointly, or head of household).
  2. Update your deductions on line 4b using this formula: Total Yearly Income — Standard Deduction = Number on line 4b.
    • The standard deduction is based on your filing status for tax year 2025 ($15,000 for single filers, $30,000 for married filing jointly, and $22,500 for heads of household).
  3. Send your updated and completed W-4 form to your employer.

If You’re Self-employed

  1. Determine how much you’re likely to owe for Federal Income Tax, Social Security, and Medicare.
  2. Subtract the standard deduction and yearly contributions to Social Security and Medicare from your estimated Total Yearly Income.
    • The standard deduction is based on your filing status for tax year 2025 ($15,000 for single filers, $30,000 for married filing jointly, and $22,500 for heads of household).
  3. Adjust your withholding on your Form 1040 (example from 2024) to lower your federal tax withholding.

If You’re a Retiree

  1. Do you get disbursements from your retirement account? Reach out to the organization that disburses your retirement funds to ask how to change your tax withholding. You may receive a W-4P to adjust your income tax withholding.
  2. Update your deductions on line 4b using this formula: Total Yearly Income — Standard Deduction = Number on line 4b.
    • The standard deduction is based on your filing status for tax year 2025 ($15,000 for single filers, $30,000 for married filing jointly, and $22,500 for heads of household. seniors over age 65 may claim an extra deduction of $2,000 for single filers and $1,600 for joint filers).
  3. Send your updated and completed W-4P form to the disburser of your retirement account.

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Here’s a letter one Tax Striker sent to the IRS

Dear Internal Revenue Service of the United States:

I am writing to inform you that I will not be paying federal income tax this year. I do not do so lightly or flippantly but out of love for this country, its constitution and its resolute commitment to the rule of law.

Dear Internal Revenue Service of the United States:

I am writing to inform you that I will not be paying federal income tax this year. I do not do so lightly or flippantly but out of love for this country, its constitution and its resolute commitment to the rule of law.

I believe that Donald Trump is the rightful President, being duly elected in November, 2024. I also believe in a strong federal government, with a separation of powers outlined in the Constitution. The constitution is quite clear that Congress – and Congress alone – controls the “power of the purse:”

“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 7, clause 1

“No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 9, clause 7

President Trump and Elon Musk have circumscribed these guardrails so clearly delineated in the Constitution in numerous ways, including shuttering the US Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and cutting budgets for several other agencies.

There exists a perfectly legal manner in which this administration could accomplish its aims without resorting to illegal maneuvers through executive fiat. Congress – both chambers of which are controlled by the President’s party – could easily pass laws to realize these goals, such as eliminating USAID or the CFPB. While I would disagree adamantly with the impact of such actions, I would respect them because they would be legal.

It is out of this love of my country and commitment to its founding principles that I feel I must withhold my contribution to the commonwealth, as sending my tribute would implicate me in a crime against the plain meaning of the Constitution.

I have always paid my taxes and expect to pay them again when the Executive branch of our nation follows its duty to use public monies in accordance with the Constitution.

Thank you

Will D.

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