Obviously we live in tax averse country.  So many males here express a willingness even to shoot persons doing their job to fairly assess a property's value.  That is insane.  We pay taxes to fund services that we all want.  Those who avoid taxes with subterfuge, or even the threat of violence, are sociopathic to the degree that they want services but they don't want to pay for them.  No wonder Donald Trump has so many followers.

Thirty years ago I worked in a photogrammetric office that, in addition to digital cartography, measured stockpiles and borrow pits for tax purposes, comparing volumes on a monthly or yearly basis.  Our office had a contract with an Oregon municipality to do annual comparisons of aerial photographs to itemize building additions, for tax purposes.  The differences were microscopic at the photographic scale, but we had powerful microscopes with very accurate measurement function in three dimensions - we could tell a shed from a deck, for instance. Pay your taxe