Suffragette Campaigning on Behalf of the Tax Resistance League, 1912

Suffragette campaigning on behalf of the Tax Resistance League. She carries an umbrella printed with the League's slogan 'No Tax no vote' and wears a Tax Resistance League poster published by the Suffrage Atelier. The message printed on the poster 'sale of goods today' suggests that the Suffragette may be promoting the public sale of items seized by the tax office from members of the League who refused to pay their taxes.

The Tax Resistance League (TRL) was formed in 1909 to conduct a campaign of organised resistance to taxation. The argument of the League was that, if women were liable to pay tax, they should be given the right to vote in parliamentary elections and influence how those taxes were spent. The League attracted primarily middle- class professional women, such as Doctors who were liable to income tax and rates. By 1910 it had 104 members. Those who refused to pay tax were liable to the seizure of goods equivalent to the value of taxes owed. When these goods were sold at public sales members of the TRL would buy back the seized items and return them to their original owners, often only for them to be seized again.