Women's Tax Resistance League

Postcard with photograph captioned ‘Women's Tax Resistance League’ and the organisation’s address. One woman carries a placard which reads ‘No Vote, No Tax’, the motto of the Tax Resistance League, closely linked to the suffragette movement.
The TRL conducted a campaign of organised resistance to taxation, arguing that women should not have to pay tax until they were given the vote and could have a say in how the taxes were spent.
The organisation attracted primarily middle class professional women as members, such as doctors, who were liable to pay income tax and rates. By 1910 it had 104 members. Those who refused to pay tax had goods seized equivalent to the value of the taxes owed. When these goods were sold at public sales, members of the TRL took the opportunity to make speeches and to buy back the items.