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Unless you have a unique tax situation, your taxes have been pulled out of every paycheck throughout the year. You can't protest by not doing taxes because you're probably giving Uncle Sam more than you otherwise would have.
Real tax based protest begins when you get a unique tax situation where your employer stops prepaying taxes for you. Or if you jump through the hoops to break even on your taxes.
Either way, there's probably better ways to protest. The IRS will find you they won't care who was president at the time.
Unless you have reason to think that you underpaid your taxes last year, exactly this. People filling their tax returns takes money back away from the federal government.
Who's that uncle Sam dude?
Not sure if sarcasm, but in case you're not American, Uncle Sam is a personification of the US, best known in the "I WANT YOU" WW2 enlistment posters. iirc, the name goes as far back as the war of 1812, wherein large stocks of rations were engraved with the initials U.S. which was then attributed to the provider "Uncle Sam" despite actually standing for "United States"