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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SiderisAnon" data-source="post: 5153558" data-attributes="member: 44949">This is why taxes that were based on accumulated wealth or flat taxes based on ownership/use were popular at times in history before extensive paperwork was really possible.  (Hard to do tax forms when the percentage of the population who can read is very low.)There is a tax system that basically works by the government looking at what you owned last year, what you owned this year, and taxing you on the difference.  It was even used in America not too long ago.  (There was a movie I watched with a whole routine where people are moving new furniture and other purchases to the houses of friends before the tax man came to assess them.)There are also numerous tax systems based on just taxing based on what you have available to you.  If you have X acres, you pay Y taxes.  If you have a shop and license to be a sword maker, you pay Z taxes.Of course, if you want to get into some really fun tax situations without paperwork, imagine a situation where you had to meet with the tax man every so often in his office, where you stood in a permanent zone of truth to answer questions about the taxes you owed.  That could be a really interesting society.  (The tax man would be despised because they could sometimes slip in other questions like whether you had done anything illegal or were cheating on your wife....)</blockquote>