Revolutionary tax is a major form of funding for violent non-state actors such as guerrilla and

terrorist Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

organizations. Those outside the organization may consider it to be a euphemism for "

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."Detection of Terrorist Financing
, U.S. National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), 2002 Proponents of such groups maintain however that there is no difference between the revolutionary taxes "extorted" by given groups and corporate taxes raised by governments. Revolutionary taxes are typically extorted from businesses, and they also "play a secondary role as one other means of intimidating the target population."

Examples

The Irish Provisional IRA and Corsican

FLNC The National Liberation Front of Corsica ( co, Fronte di liberazione naziunale di a Corsica or ; french: Front de libération nationale corse, abbreviated FLNC) was a militant group that advocates an independent state on the island of Corsica, ...

have extorted revolutionary taxes as well as the following organizations.

ETA

The

Basque nationalist Basque nationalism ( eu, eusko abertzaletasuna ; es, nacionalismo vasco; french: nationalisme basque) is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the po ...

organization

ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...

depended on revolutionary taxes.Terrorism versus democracy: the liberal state response
Paul Wilkinson, Frank Cass Publishers, 2001, p. 70 Small to medium-sized businesses were extorted between the amounts of 35,000 to 400,000 euros each, which comprised most of ETA's 10 million euro budget in 2001.

The Philippines

In the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

some local and foreign companies pay revolutionary taxes to the

Maoist Maoism, officially called Mao Zedong Thought by the Chinese Communist Party, is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed to realise a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of Ch ...

New People's Army The New People's Army ( fil, Bagong Hukbong Bayan), abbreviated NPA or BHB, is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), based primarily in the Philippine countryside. It acts as the CPP's principal organization, aim ...

''. According to the army, the tax is a major obstacle for the country's development while the

justified it as a tax to be paid upon entering territories controlled by the rebels being a belligerent force.

Colombia

The revolutionary taxes of Colombian guerrilla movements have become more common in the 1980s and 1990s.

Nepal

The Maoist guerillas of

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

have also widely extorted revolutionary taxes.Trekking in the time of terrorism - The east is red with rhododendron and revolution
DAMBAR KRISHNA SHRESTHA, GUPHA POKHARI #243, 15.4.2005

Argentina

The

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neo-Nazi Neo-Nazism comprises the post–World War II militant, social, and political movements that seek to revive and reinstate Nazi ideology. Neo-Nazis employ their ideology to promote hatred and racial supremacy (often white supremacy), attack ...

organisation

Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara The ''Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara'' (MNT, Tacuara Nationalist Movement) was an Argentine far right fascist movement from 1955 through the 1960s, and in the years (at least) 1960–66, as Neo Nazis,Jewish Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The ...

shops in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

.{{cite book , last=Perdue , first=J.B. , title=The War of All the People: The Nexus of Latin American Radicalism and Middle Eastern Terrorism , publisher=Potomac Books , year=2012 , isbn=978-1-59797-704-3 , url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TcNy985Q-LQC&pg=PA79 , access-date=1 May 2018 , page=79

References

Euphemisms Funding of terrorism Extortion