Web Site Turns War Tax Into Peace Dividend

Today, American history is being made.

After 109 years, the Phone Excise Tax (originally created to help fund the Spanish American War in 1898) is going away, and in its place is a unique, one-time opportunity to do some good for the planet.

Americans can receive a refund on their tax returns by checking a box or auditing their phone records for the past 41 months.

In February 2007 the IRS reported that one in three early tax filers was not even checking the box to get their "automatic" refund.To address this problem, two social entrepreneurs, Jonathan Gorham and Michael Swartz in Connecticut have launched a web site http://www.refundsforgood.org/ to help individuals and organizations get their full phone "War Tax" refunds.

The web site makes it easy for people to donate this "found" money to three worthwhile non-profits, working for sustainable development and renewable energy.

Thirteen Nobel Peace Prize Laureates endorse this web site, as well as Martin Sheen, Ed Begley, Jr., "JR," Larry Hagman and Nate Corddry.

The web site provides a complete on-line Wizard for businesses and non-profits to calculate their phone tax refund for free (it even prints onto form 8913 automatically).

The goals of the portal are simple:

1. To help Americans get their phone tax refunds.
2. To inspire taxpayers to donate some of this money to the three exceptional non-profits carefully researched and chosen to be on the Refunds for Good website.

Refunds for Good turns guns into plow shares by redirecting this unpopular "War Tax" to places where the Earth needs help the most.

I urge you to visit: http://www.refundsforgood.org/