I don't know about Europe and it's taxes but, here in the states, we were all sold into slavery back in 1903 when the big banks and the banksters that run/own them got their way in the creation of the Federal Reserve bank and instituted the Income tax to guarantee the government payment of interest on the money it borrows from these banksters to operate with.
The banksters get rich and the rest of us get screwed every April since.
