Women's Tax Resistance League

It is non-partisan—an association of constitutional and militant suffragists, recruited from various suffrage societies for the purpose of resisting taxes.

For six weeks, Montefiore resisted payment of her taxes, addressing the frequent crowds through the upper windows of the house.

This was legally unsatisfactory, as Mark Wilks was being asked for tax on an income of about £600 per annum that he was nominally unaware of.

Subsequently, 3,000 teachers signed a petition when Mark Wilks was placed in Brixton prison, and there was a demonstration in Trafalgar Square to protest his treatment.

He was released after a fortnight to celebrations from the supporters of the Women's Tax Resistance League,[6] which included George Bernard Shaw.

[citation needed] The women's suffrage movement in the United States came to adopt some of the same techniques.