Unfortunately governments do not have money of their own and they must tax their citizens to enable them to pay for certain services. Here in Australia we have an income tax system and we have a broad based consumption tax commonly called a GST (Goods and Services Tax). Unfortunately as Ben suggested in an earlier post that governments can print money and use this to pay for services this will not work as governments can control the amount of money that is cycling around an economy by taxing its citizens and by doing this it can control the level of spending in the economy. The more that governments pump money into an economy the higher inflation and the economy goes out of control. All governments control their economies through the use of fiscal and monetary policy. Once again in Australia our government allows the Reserve Bank to control monetary policy obviously under strict guidelines that are set in the budget. Taxes imposed by governments on their citizens are extremely important.

taxation is the major source of government revenue.countries perform their duties after collection of tax.social services like health, education, water and economic services like roads,power provision would be impossible for government to achieve without taxation. In Uganda for example more than 60% of the budget is funded by import, export, exercise duty taxes.the remaining percent which is foreign aid is also paid back by individuals after tax collection. When you here of government in the world that is taxation, money, government can use taxation to achieve monetary and fiscal policies, control inflation, reduce income inequality and more important government can use taxation to control production of harmful products among the population.

Taxation is good. Government can’t survive without imposing tax on her citizens. The sad story as it concerned my country Nigeria is that government does not even create jobs or create enabling environment for productivity so that Tax can be collected. The system collapse is inevitable and inflation must set in as government has no option but to print money.
To me Tax imposition on citizen = Job creation 

Governments can’t function without taxation. They won’t be able to provide the necessary goods and services. Kuwait does not tax its citizens but taxes foreign companies. Government funding comes mainly from oil exports. If there was no oil in that country – or if the oil wells run dry- taxes would be promptly imposed.

An economy cannot survive without taxation as this is what drives economic growth and development. All the things people often forget about and take for granted such as health system, education, roads and railways etc where does the money come from to provide these – taxation. Whether it be in the form of personal or business tax it is vital

I suppose if you are in Saudi Arabia or the UAE where the government gets money from oil or maybe third world economies where it is mostly subsistence and inflation is running at enormous rates.
I think you will find that advanced economies rely on tax to survive and provide essential services to their people.
Even the Romans in the time of Christ collected taxes.

Yes oo

No, the world governments depend on tax for developments. 

I think what you mean is not an economy but a country.

A country can survive without imposing tax on its citizen only when the percentage of its national budget from tax is very low. In other words, the country should has a strong income outside tax if it want to survive without taxing its people. United States is unarguably the strongest nation in the world and 93% of its federal revenue comes from tax (See this page for the detailed figures). The similar figure also exist in developing country such as Indonesia where 86% of its national budget comes from tax. However, a country like Saudi Arabia has a national revenue which consist mostly from non income tax. 68% of Saudi Arabian revenue (in 2019) come from oil revenue, while the other 32% is a combination of non-oil revenue including tax. Thus, a country like Saudi Arabia would have greater chance to survive without taxing its citizen than the US or Indonesia.

So, the answer is depended on the revenue structure of a particular country.

Experts have been known to say that indirect taxes are better than income taxes as they encourage people to spend more and therefore pay more tax. I know in Australia we have a broad based consumption tax and we have an income tax that is applied on a progressive scale and there are other indirect taxes imposed on Australians. The government is also trying to find ways of ensuring multinationals such as MIcrosoft and Google pay their share of income tax on earnings made here in Australia.

We almost paid indirectly to all kinds of taxes. For example, we eat a cup of coffee. We have paid several company taxes by consuming just a cup of coffee. We paid the taxes of the coffee mill company, the sugar mill company, and the taxes of the manufacturer of the cup by which the coffee is contained. Of course, we paid the consumption tax and the cafe’s tax where we drink the coffee.
Although I said that there are a company and income taxes in my previous comment, I did not mean that they must be in a direct tax form. The government imposes the tax on the companies, and they pass it through to the consumer.

Countries should think of other ways to generate revenue rather than relying so much on taxes

Tax contributes government revenue and act as a backbone of country economy. Zero tax in long term will riun the government economic growth.

Yes their are some countries that doesn’t impose taxes on their citizens directly.
But we must know that citizens always paye tax it can be directly or indirectly.

I think it should be understood that tax, for a significant part, is indirect. When you use your phone and the internet, you pay the taxes. When you eat and even sleep on your bed, you are paying taxes.

When you use the phone, you pay taxes for the phone you use and the internet services that give you access to the network. When you eat, you pay the taxes for every tool you used to cook and eat the meal and every food material you use.

And when you sleep, you paid the taxes for the bed manufacturer, the cotton farmer, the bed merchant, etc.

So, Yes, most of the taxes we paid are indirect.

I don’t think so, even the bible talks taxes. It’s not something that has come of recent, it’s in history. We have Zachaus, I’m not sure of the spelling, he was a tax collector and this was the time when Jesus was on earth! 
So taxation is as old as mankind.

Taxes are a certainty of life – you pay them one way or another even though you dont always realise it.

Yes economy can survive with out tax. Tax is one out of many ways government generate revenue.,if there’s tax free in any country, government can sustain the economy via other sources. 

If you only say tax .My answer is no. No country economy can survive without taxes.we always paye taxes whether it’s direct or indirect.