Nope. They are more onerous. If you don't work above board, you don't pay income taxes. You can never not pay property taxes, and unless something major changes, you must pay them in fiat, so you're always on the hook for fiat. That is worse, IMO, especially since I don't want to be coerced to pay for stuff like schools (in many places your property taxes are tired to stupid schools) or police departments.