Revolutionary tax is a major form of funding for violent non-state actors such as guerrilla and terrorist organizations.
Revolutionary taxes are typically extorted from businesses, and they also "play a secondary role as one other means of intimidating the target population.
"[1] The Irish Provisional IRA and Corsican FLNC have extorted revolutionary taxes[2] as well as the following organizations: The Argentinian neo-Nazi organisation Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara (MNT) demanded a "revolutionary tax" from Jewish shops in Buenos Aires.
[9] In the Philippines some local and foreign companies pay revolutionary taxes to the Maoist New People's Army.
According to the army, the tax is a major obstacle for the country's development while the New People's Army justified it as a tax to be paid upon entering territories controlled by the rebels being a belligerent force.