from Sanity
Howard Cheney.ewas told last month that a bankruptcy order would be taken out @gainst him by the Inland Revenue in respect of about £1,300 surtax which he has refused to payeeeeclir. 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 £1,300 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 National Council at its last neeting adopted a resolution express-= ing respect for those who refused taxes for nuclear weapons, but declining to commit: the Campaign to a strategy of tax refusal. Ed. notes: 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,