DIVIDE AND RULE

In Roman times, slaves were made to wear different uniforms because the generals knew that if the enslaved saw how many of them there were, they might rise up and overwhelm the generals.

For centuries, divide and rule has been used to keep the masses apart. Yet the sheer horror of Gaza — and the unbearable scale of the devastation and killing — has stirred outrage across the world. Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists – and humans from all walks of life – came together in solidarity, with millions marching throughout the world in support of the people of Gaza and the West Bank.

Suddenly, the slaves were wearing the same uniform.

And it was green, red, black, and white.

Making War History

Although this site’s focus is largely on tax reduction as a form of resistance to the financing of conflicts around the world & resistance to the tyranny of government, the crimes of government extend far beyond illegal wars of aggression.

Many Members of Parliament have, at times, blurred the line between public service and private gain, engaging with corporate interests while in office and later taking positions within those same sectors. Concerns have also been raised at the local authority level, where public funds have, in some cases, been directed to dissolved or opaque entities, accompanied by poor record-keeping, missing invoices, and irregular payments—issues often categorised by the National Audit Office as “error” or, in more serious cases “material fraud”.

In this context, the role of political leadership and accountability becomes central. Where allegations of misconduct—whether domestic or international—are credible, they must be subject to rigorous scrutiny. Ensuring transparency, adherence to legal standards, and meaningful oversight is essential to maintaining public trust and upholding the rule of law.

There is, moreover, a substantive and ongoing debate about the United Kingdom’s compliance with international law. Questions have been raised regarding the actions of various state bodies—including the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, elements of the defence and intelligence apparatus, and associated financial institutions—in relation to overseas operations, arms exports, and historical conduct. Examples frequently cited include arms sales to Saudi Arabia in the context of the Yemen conflict, and past military testing practices (Sarin gas) involving British soldiers.

Had previous Prime Minsters been brought to justice for past criminal acts, Tony Blair would not be on the Board of Peace helping Trump with his “bold vision” real estate deal but would instead have been tried at the Hague, where he belongs.

The time to act and bring these criminals to justice is now. And it can be done with the support of the British people.

What Can I Do?

There are numerous ways we can take action from educating Parliamentarians on the Laws of War to reducing complicity in funding wars via divesting and decentralising taxes & instead invest in local communities and by placing our taxes in a Tax Trust to be held until the government and civil servants act within the boundaries of international & domestic laws.

The more people who act, the quicker we’ll see results.

ACTION 1:

Send Your MP the Laws of War booklet

Write to your MP and enclose the Laws of War booklet. Remember, you are putting them on NOTICE. Make demands in your letter: Opening of Gaza borders, influx of aid, oil deliveries to Cuba, the creation of a UK Sovereign Wealth Fund, Palantir & Oracle out of the UK, ‘no’ to curtailing jury trials, all or some of these…or whatever you feel most strongly about. And of course, remind them of their violations of those laws to which the UK government is a signatory. Follow up in 30 days asking what they have done to facilitate your demands. Remind them, they are your servants.

Why is this important?

Because most MPs & many civil servants DO NOT understand the Laws of War and which laws they are violating when they vote to take actions – or carry out such actions. Actions which are clearly unlawful and can be deemed to be unlawful by a court. This can be anything from selling arms to ‘Israel’/Saudi Arabia when there is a plausible risk civilians will be targeted, to proscribing those who were found guilty of violent disorder while trying to prevent a worse crime – that of Elbit Systems aiding and abetting the genocide in Gaza for profit.

The point isn’t that on reading the Laws of War booklet your MP or the FCDO will suddenly down tools having been enlightened that they are in violation of international and domestic law, but once informed, should they continue to act outside the law they will be doing to with intent and with the knowledge that such actions have consequences.

Useful links:

Mark Smith (and others) resigned from the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) as they believed they were complicit in war crimes by following the demands of the UK government. 300 FCDO employees signed a letter suggesting the government stop selling arms to ‘Israel’. They were ignored. You can read about Mark Smith’s experience here – it’s damning: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/09/uk-foreign-office-war-crimes-arms-gaza-yemen

Find out which contracts the UK Government is signing up to. Ask your MP why both Palantir (targeted civilians in Gaza) and Oracle (CEO is Larry ‘Friends of the IDF’ Ellison and the largest sponsor of the Blair puppet) were given contracts with no tender: UK Gov SCAN contracts: https://ukgovscan.com/

Check what interests your MP declares. Many keep some interests hidden. Always useful to get a handle on whether your MP is a servant of the people or a plain old grifter: https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/registers-of-interests/register-of-members-financial-interests/

Remember, every letter you write now and every template response you receive, will become part of your court bundle if you do decide to take the grifters and warmongers to court.

ACTION 2:

Divest Tax

DIVEST

The UK government has extended the Seed Enterprise Investment and Enterprise Investment Scheme initiative until 2035. Anybody wishing to invest some of their taxes into local companies or those advertising on platforms such as Republic.com can do so.

The Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) and Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) offer tax relief to individual investors who buy shares in a company. SEIS offers 50% income tax relief, 50% capital gains relief, loss relief at marginal rate of tax, 100% inheritance tax relief and no tax to pay on gains. EIS offers similar incentives, with income tax relief at 30%.

Lower Tax

Reduce Tax

There are multiple ways to reduce the tax you pay to the government including offsetting the % of your day-to-day costs associated with a business run from home.

ACTION 3:

Hold Your Taxes in a Conditional, Revocable Tax Trust

…until the UK government can prove in a court of competent jurisdiction that none of your taxes will be used to fund – directly or indirectly – wars of aggression, ethnic cleansing, murder & genocide.

Britain was the first country in the world to recognise the legal right to conscientious objection for those who could demonstrate sincere and genuine moral grounds. If freedom of conscience is truly central to Britain’s national identity as a democracy that upholds liberty, then the right not to fund unlawful wars of aggression should carry the same legal and ethical weight as the right not to fight in them.

The Peace Tax 7 court case (2005) involved a group of conscientious objectors who sought a judicial review to divert the military-funded portion of their taxes toward peaceful conflict resolution. Sir Keir Starmer, then a human rights barrister, was a key member of their legal team. The case focused on the right not to fund, but the ECHR rejected the case as they concluded tax – even when being used to fund the killing of others – didn’t interfere with a person’s freedom of conscience.

The problem therefore remains, if not conscience, what should a taxpayer do if he/she wishes to avoid being complicit in the crimes of government, when the government is so clearly in violation of so many international & domestic laws.

Please read this statement by Chris Coverdale and watch the video below:

All Trust documents can be found via the link below and NoTaxForWar holds Q&A sessions on alternate Mondays:

notaxforwar.com

ACTIONS 4/5/6:

COUNCILS: LGPS, Oracle/Palantir & Account Scrutiny

4. Local Government Pension Schemes

Most Local Councils invest heavily via their Local Government Pension Schemes (LGPS) in both companies operating illegally from within the Occupied Territories of Palestine as well as arms manufacturers. These investments are in violation of the Geneva Convention, the Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism Act and the International Criminal Court Act.

The button below will take you to the PSC/LGPS website where you can get information on your council’s complicit investments plus template letters.

LGPS Complicit Investments

5a. Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Disaster & Links to IDF

Oracle Fusion Cloud is an integrated suite of applications (ERP, HCM, SCM) increasingly adopted by local authorities to modernize legacy systems, enhance digital capabilities, and reduce manual processes. The rollout at Birmingham City Council became a landmark “disaster” in public sector IT, characterized by massive budget overruns (est cost £19M, cost-to-date £215.5M and it’s still not working) red-flags prior to rollout and a significant contribution to the council’s bankruptcy.

Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, has become the primary benefactor of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), pledging over £257 million to the think tank since 2021. This funding has expanded TBI’s operations, effectively acting as a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle – with no competing tenders from UK companies. Under the influence of this partnership, Oracle has been handed contracts in the following government departments: NHS, FCDO, HMRC, DWP, Local Authorities, UKHSA, Network Rail, The Met Office, The CPS, Civil Nuclear Constabulary, HM Land Registry, DVLA, the Bank of England, the Home Office and….Sellafield. What could possibly go wrong. The UK government is considering a sovereign wealth fund not using North Sea Oil & Gas, but using our data.

With Oracle being sued in the US for – among other things – failure to disclose the extent of its debt (including a $38BN loan for a data centre) and its involvement in collecting dossiers on individuals through its “Oracle Data Marketplace” and data tracking as part of its “surveillance machine” – it would be fair for the taxpayer to demand from the government the following: a) Why were there no tenders; b) why British/UK companies weren’t considered; c) Is Tony Blair running the show and d) is the UK Gov failing in its fiduciary duty to UK taxpayer by i) extorting funds from them to pay for their own technocratic incarceration and ii) not ensuring the were better and more ably run deals to be had.

The first link below will alert you to whether your council is using Oracle and/or Palantir and if so – you can refuse to fund the council further unless they drop these contracts which often contain expensive exits. The second link is a database of hospitals allowing you to check for Palantir involvement.

5b. Palatir’s targeting of children in Gaza

Amnesty International UK and other human rights organisations allege that Palantir’s AI-driven targeting systems have been used by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) to facilitate “precision warfare” that has resulted in high civilian casualties.

Reports from 404 Media and the ACLU highlight an app called ELITE (Enhanced Leads Identification and Targeting for Enforcement) used by ICE. This tool populates maps with potential targets, provides “address confidence scores,” and creates dossiers on individuals. Campaign groups like the Good Law Project claim that ELITE mines data from the Department of Health and Human Services and Medicaid to identify and prioritize targets for immigration raids.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has cited these reports to urge UK doctors to withdraw from using Palantir’s “Federated Data Platform” in the NHS, arguing that the company’s work with ICE & ‘Israeli’ intelligence undermines patient trust and poses a risk that medical data could be weaponized for state surveillance.

GOV CONTRACTS
Remove PALANTIR from the NHS

6. Councils Fraudulent Overspend – Check Their Books

According to the National Audit Office, many government departments haven’t had a “clean audit” (numbers add up) in decades. Reasons given run “error” to “material fraud”.

Length of unclean audits are as follows:

  • DWP hasn’t had a clean audit for 37 years
  • HMRC 22 years
  • MoD 16 years
  • Cabinet Office 2 years

All Council Tax payers have the right to look at the books in July or August (depending on the council). The allocation allowed is 2 hours and you can’t make copies but you can take notes. Quite the eye-opener.

Council Spending

Notes on Trusts

We do not recommend you use the Trust Deed for speeding tickets, driving without insurance or anything which the legislative process considers illegal. We have opted to operate within their legislative realm and the aim is to hold the government to account when they are in breach of ratified international law or acting criminally.

A Note on Upholding the Law

TRUSTS are Legal Documents – Look after your Trust

A trust in England is a legal arrangement where one or more persons (the trustees) hold and manage assets (such as property, money, or investments) for the benefit of others (the beneficiaries). Trusts are established to provide legal protection for the trustor’s assets, to ensure those assets are used according to the trustor’s wishes, and sometimes to gain tax efficiencies or to protect assets from creditors.

  • Settlor: The person who puts assets into the trust. They decide how the trust’s assets should be managed and distributed.
  • Trustee: The individual(s) or corporate entity appointed to manage the trust’s assets. Trustees have a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of the beneficiaries. They are legally responsible for the trust and must manage it prudently.
  • Beneficiary: The person or persons who are intended to benefit from the trust. Beneficiaries can have a fixed interest or a discretionary interest where the trustees decide on the distribution.
  • Trust Deed: A legal document that sets out the terms of the trust, including who the trustees are, the beneficiaries, how the trust should be managed, and how the assets are to be distributed.

Who can officially administer a trust in England:

  1. Professional Trustees: These can include solicitors, accountants, or trust corporations (like banks or specialized trust companies). They are chosen for their expertise in trust law, tax, and estate planning.
  2. Lay Trustees: Often friends or family members of the settlor. They might not have professional expertise but are trusted by the settlor to act in the beneficiaries’ best interests.
  3. Public Trustee: A government official who can act as a trustee when no one else is available or appointed, though this is less common for new trusts.
  4. Chartered Trust and Estate Planners: Professionals who specialize in trust administration, often holding qualifications from organizations like the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
  5. Executor and Trustee Companies: These are businesses set up specifically to act as executors or trustees.

When administering a trust, trustees must:

  • Follow the terms of the trust deed.
  • Manage the trust with a duty of care, which means as if it were their own but with the beneficiaries’ interests at heart.
  • Keep proper accounts and provide information to beneficiaries as required.
  • Invest the trust’s assets prudently.

It’s worth noting that being a trustee carries significant responsibilities and potential liabilities, so individuals or entities acting as trustees should be well-informed of their duties or seek professional advice.

  1. Failure to Account: Trustees are required to keep accurate records and provide beneficiaries with accounts of the trust’s management. Failing to do so or providing misleading information is a breach.
  2. Neglect or Omission: Not taking action when action is required, like failing to collect debts owed to the trust, neglecting to insure trust property, or not defending the trust against legal claims when necessary.
  3. Commingling Funds: Trustees must keep trust assets separate from their personal assets. Mixing these can lead to confusion and potential loss of trust assets.

What to expect from the councils and HMRC

Both the HMRC and the councils will treat the Trust Deed as a complaint. When the HMRC or Council comes back to you with their reasons as to why the DEED has no basis in law, remind them that a) the Discretionary, Revocable Conditional Trust is expressly established and made in accordance with the Recognition of Trusts Act 1987, Knight v Knight [1840] 49 ER 58 and Milroy v Lord [1862] EWHC J78 and therefore is legally binding to all crown servants and crown agents and b) that clause 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000, states; a person commits an offence if he invites, receives or provides money or other property, and knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect, it may be used for the purposes of terrorism, where terrorism is defined as the threat or use of firearms or explosions endangering life for a political or ideological cause.

HM revenues and Customs aren’t necessarily the enemy. In August 2024, Mark Smith, a Foreign Office official, resigned in protest against the UK’s refusal to ban arms exports to Israel, pointing out that continuing these exports could implicate the UK in violations of international law.

Civil servants responsible for overseeing arms exports to Israel requested to “cease work immediately“, feared that authorizing these exports might make them complicit in potential war crimes in Gaza. They threatened to sue the government if they were forced to comply with demands they believed were manifestly illegal.

Civil servants are having to balance national policies with international law and personal conscience. Best to get them onside.


Using the taxation trust documents

Before starting this process it is important to read and understand the following documents:

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1. Share and read the Lawful Tax Resistance Article

2. Clarify your understanding of every statement in the Declaration of Sovereignty and Deed of Trust (D&D) document and the lawful, legal and legitimate basis for refusing to take a financial part in Britain’s illegal criminal wars, mass murders, crimes against humanity and genocides that take place ONLY because taxpayers fund these crimes by paying tax. Be aware that every taxpayer pays £1,830 towards so called ‘defence’ (buying weapons, ships, aircraft, tanks, missiles, bombs etc.) and paying military forces to use them to attack and murder an average of 100,000 men women and children every year since 2001.

3. Then read and check that you understand section 1 of the United Nations Act 1946, Article 41 of the UN Charter, section 15 of the Terrorism Act 2000 and section 52 of the International Criminal Court Act 2001and that these criminal offences apply to every person in the UK including the Monarch, the Prime Minister and every adult taxpayer.

4. Fill in, sign and witness your D&Ds, take two or three copies of each person’s D&D and place the original and cash (or monies in a designated bank account – though this is risky as the banks can take the monies from your account to pay HMRC directly) or a promissory note in a separate safe place at home. 

5. If doing this as part of a group, make a firm commitment to each other in your group that you will together take a lawful, legal and legitimate stand against this criminal government activity and put your taxes in trust for one, more or all of the following Government agents – your local Council, HMRC (His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs) and/or businesses, institutions and/or corporations that you know or suspect are passing / or will pass money or property to HM Government.

6. Decide which tax demands that you as a group will withhold first. (Council Tax, Income Tax, VAT, PAYE, NI etc).

7. Look through some of the template letters to send to a Council, Employers, HMRC etc. and write your own letter in your own words explaining why you are withholding the money and the conditions they will need to meet if you (as trustee) are to hand over the money to them. 

8. Post the letters (individual or joint) with a copy of your D&D to your chosen government agent (Council, HMRC etc).

9. Inform your local Freedom Co-op / Hub organiser of your actions so that you can build up a list of those local people that are lawfully withholding taxes.

10. Plan the next steps (such as meeting with your local councillors / journalists / local media outlets to educate them on the lawful duty to withhold tax when the money is used for criminal purposes.

11. At the financial year-end, you can perhaps send a contribution of your tax savings to share between the Taxpayers’ Co-operative and your local Freedom Co-op, hub or group. If there isn’t one in your area, perhaps you can look into setting one up. There are currently 7,000 co-ops in Britain. 

 Chris Coverdale 1 / 11 / 23

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