The last time Conscience launched a Bill in parliament, trying to change the law so that citizens have the right to conscientiously object to paying the military proportion of their taxes, was in 2016. The Bill called for a Peace Tax. You can read about the Taxes for Peace Bill 2016 here: https://www.conscienceonline.org.uk/our-previous-work/new-taxes-for-peace-draft-bill/ I have […]
Tag: Peace Tax
Turning our priorities upside down
At the time of writing 14,576 people have died in hospital in the UK due to Covid-19. In addition many many have died from Covid-19 in the community. A growing number of health, and social care, and other public sector professionals are losing their lives after contracting the virus in the course of their work. […]
Voices of Conscientious Objection
We are excited to let you know about a new project Conscience is developing. It is called Voices of Conscientious Objection. We are very grateful for the grant we have received from Funding for Social Change Ltd for this work. We applied for funds to organise five public meetings across the country to share the […]
Part of me still frightened and frozen inside – after standing outside Faslane nuclear weapons base
A few weeks ago I went to Faslane in Scotland; to HM Naval Base Clyde where the submarines carrying UK nuclear weapons are based. I went as part of a group from the 15th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns. The people in the group were from five countries. It was […]
Anne’s story
Anne McCullagh-DLyske is a war tax resister and an Executive Committee member of Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War. She is also the Coordinator of Conscience in Scotland. She has been tireless in organising the 15th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns which is taking place in Edinburgh later this month. […]
Counting the UK nuclear weapons money
Tomorrow (Saturday 26 October) Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War is holding an event outside the Ministry of Defence in London; ‘Count the money we spend on nuclear weapons – and divert it to saving our climate’. From 10.00 – 16.00 we will be physically counting the £5.2 billion the UK spends on nuclear weapons […]