from Sanity
Howard Cheney..was told last month that a bankruptcy order would be taken out 4¢ainst him by the Imland Revenue in respect of about 21,300 surtax which he has refused to pay....Mr. Cheney has what he describes as ‘a substantial income! from the family firm of C.W. Cheney & Sons Ltd., which manufactures suitcase locks at a Birmingham works employing nearly 1,000 workers, He also owns and lives in a 350 acre farm, Aylesmore Farm, near Shipstone-on-Stour, Warwickshire, The £1,500 is what he calculates to be the proportion of his surtax assessment for 1961-2 which would be used by the Government to finance nuclear weapons....'If the Inland Revenue accepted my conscientious objection I wuld pay the money to CND. I once paid £100 I owed on taxes to the Committee of 100, but the Commissioner wasn't at all pleased when I told him...
CND's Sational Council at its last meeting adopted a resolution express=" ing respect for those who refused taxes for nuclear weapons, but declining j to commit: the Campsipn to a strategy of tax refusal. Ed. note: A copy of Howard Cheney's leaflet 'Why I refuse to Pay Taxes for War Preparations' is enclosed with this issue of the Week for information,
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