Conscience: Taxes for Peace not War | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-06

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00:01:41 1 History
00:01:51 1.1 The Peace Tax Campaign
00:03:24 1.2 Conscience: The Peace Tax Campaign
00:04:54 1.3 Shelia McKechnie Foundation Award
00:05:54 1.4 Conscience: Taxes For Peace Not War
00:06:46 2 Controversies
00:07:39 3 Campaigning Activity
00:07:49 3.1 Conflict Pool
00:09:45 3.2 Conflict, Stability and Security Fund
00:11:16 3.3 Taxes for Peace Bill
00:14:49 4 Publications
00:15:15 5 See also



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Conscience: Taxes for Peace Not War is an advocacy group based in the United Kingdom. Conscience's primary aim is to change British tax law to allow conscientious objectors to military taxation to redirect the military portion of their taxes to a fund designed for international peacebuilding, conflict management, conflict prevention and other non-violent interventions. Quakers, Mennonites, Ba'hais, Buddhists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists and Haredim Jews all practice conscientious objection for reasons of faith. Many other individuals do so for reasons of conscience, some believing there is little moral difference between actually firing lethal weapons and paying someone else to do so. Conscience believes that to deny these individuals the right to redirect the military portion of their taxes is to deny them freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as enshrined in various national and international human rights laws.
Conscience has also campaigned around the management, transparency and utilisation of the Conflict, Stability, and Security Fund (formerly the Conflict Pool), a UK government fund which ‘seeks to reduce the impact of conflict and instability around the world’ mainly via non-military means.
This year, during the Centenary of the Military Service Act, which was the first in the world to enshrine the right to conscientious objection in law, the organisation is introducing a 'Taxes for Peace' bill to the British Parliament, which seeks to extend the 100 year old conscience clause into the tax system.