Vivien Kellems

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Vivien Kellems (1896–1975)

Tax Resister, Feminist, and Industrialist

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Books:

• Toil, Taxes, and Trouble (1952)

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As Rose Wilder Lane, Isabel Paterson, and Zora Neale Hurston, Vivien Kellems was a champion of individual freedom during the era of New Deal and war. Overcoming tremendous odds, she took on the Internal Revenue Service and won, at least a temporary victory.

Vivien Kellems refused to withhold taxes from her employees’ wages, saying: “They are all free American citizens, thoroughly capable of performing all of the duties and responsibilities of citizenship for themselves. And so, from this day, I am not collecting nor paying their income taxes for them.”