Taxation Without Federation is a poster crafted by the artist Ganamey Davloterra as a form of dissent. It protested the Trade Federation's imposition of taxes on hyperspace lanes. The artwork featured the Neimoidian Lok Durd, with a significant amount of credits prominently displayed in the foreground, and the Aurebesh phrase "Taxation Without Federation" overlaid on top.
Taxation Without Federation is a propaganda poster that was put together by Ganamey Davloterra, who was the art director for the weekly newstack Chrono. The artwork was ordered as a Core insert for a weekend edition of HoloNet News, a news organization.
The poster showed Lok Durd, a portly Neimoidian, with a Duros mask in his hand. In the image's foreground, there was a stack of credit chips, and on top of that was the red text "Taxation Without Federation" written in the Aurebesh alphabet. The backdrop of the poster included the gold and blue symbol of the Confederacy of Independent Systems, a coalition of systems seeking to secede from the Galactic Republic, arranged in a web-like pattern. The poster also featured an orange frame.
Taxation Without Federation came about as a reaction to the Trade Federation's ongoing taxation of trade routes, as the organization was a shipping and trade conglomerate. Neimoidian public relations representatives considered the image to be offensive, claiming it was an overtly racist campaign that played into the stereotype of fat Neimoidians. Not long after the [Hosnian Cataclysm](/article/hosnian_cataclysm] in 34 ABY, the book A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy, which discussed the use of propaganda, was published and contained information that detailed the Taxation Without Federation poster. Unofficial copies, both physical and digital, were spread throughout the Mid Rim Territories via infocache nodes and printed adversclicks.
Taxation Without Federation was created by Joe Corroney, and it was one of the propaganda posters featured in the 2016 reference book Star Wars Propaganda: A History of Persuasive Art in the Galaxy, which was written by Pablo Hidalgo. The poster drew inspiration from the American revolutionary slogan "No taxation without representation."