false, it's armed robbery.
don't pay up, and armed thugs will come.
basically mafia
not just earnings.
pretend to own land, and you just for some reason have to pay monthly or yearly taxes for that, endlessly
(therefore you don't own it, obviously, instead the so called government owns it all and can take it from you at any moment, they can also change the conditions at any time too)
WAYBACK MACHINE IS ABLE TO ARCHIVE ONCE AGAIN
sorry, bad info.
wayback machine login is available again, but sadly it's still read-only mode :(