If it is anything like where I live, a property tax is used to pay for the maintenance (roads, sewers, water, electricity) and services (social programs, buses, fire fighters, police) related to a municipality. It is about paying to have access to a community. At different seasons in our lives, we pay too much or too little.
Discussion
It isn’t paying if not paying means you get thrown in jail.
I believe not paying is the same as stealing within your community so it should be punishable.
The conversation should focus on how municipal government can change to lower property taxes or come up with an alternative system so citizens are fairly taxed for shared services that they use.