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Betsy Corner

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1980s
State:Massachusetts
Time Imprisoned:
2 Years 1 Day
Support
Anti-War Anti-Militarism War Resisters League
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Biography

Wife of Randy Kehler, co-resister in the Colrain, Massachusetts war-tax-resistance case that became the most sustained war tax action in U.S. history. The couple stopped paying federal income taxes in 1977; the IRS seized their home in 1989 to recover $27,000. Corner participated in the four-year community occupation of the seized property (1989-1993) that drew dozens of arrests, the documentary "An Act of Conscience," and significant national attention to the war tax resistance movement.

Case

War Tax Resistance
Charges: Willful failure to file/pay federal income tax (26 U.S.C. § 7203); contempt
Arrested: Nov 30, 1989
Incarcerated: Nov 30, 1989
Released: December 1991
Sentence: Brief jail terms. Charges as recorded: Willful failure to file/pay federal income tax (26 U.S.C. § 7203); contempt for refusing to comply with IRS summons (war tax resistance)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: District of Columbia