The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC — usually pronounced "new-trick") is an American activist coalition that promotes tax resistance as a way to protest against and/or disassociate from war and militarism.
[2][better source needed] It filled an organizational gap that had been left since the group War Tax Resistance (founded in 1969) dissolved in 1975.
Members of that group, of Conscience and Military Tax Campaign, and of Center on Law and Pacifism, among others, recognized a need to coordinate war tax resistance activities undertaken by a variety of groups in the United States.
They published a legal and practical guide for war tax resistance counselors, created a list of nationwide counselors, and organized national gatherings of a diverse variety of war tax resisters.
[3] By 1985, NWTRCC had more than 60 local or regional chapters and claimed that 20,000 Americans were engaged in some form of war tax resistance.