when you dig deep into the actual laws around taxation you discover that they are supposedly voluntary, though they make it read like it's death if you don't, that's why there is this expression "grey market" and i think it is a better word for it, it's where you are doing business but nobody is being hurt, only that you aren't paying protection money

as taxes and regulations get ever more retarded people find the grey market more and more interesting and turn to it more and more because they have to

it's notable that in much of the former communist bloc and current or former dictatorships across the world, the grey market is an open secret that everyone will tell you about freely once you have lived in the place for a while, i mean, EVERYWHERE here even in madeira there is many grey market trades going on, especially away from the dense population, almost nobody pays taxes and almost everyone trades with their neighbours, almost none of the retailers have card terminals or if they do, they don't use them or prefer to avoid using them, probably because they keep a lot of their income off the books