Yep, next thing you know Big Brother will be flying drones over garage sales and taking addresses.
The next big tax will be invented to offset lower gasoline tax revenue due to electric cars. EV owners beware.
There is no such thing as being off grid in most communities. You can install all the solar you want and the electric company still has the right to charge you monthly for a hookup to the grid to which you supply extra power. Some homeowners try to live without garbage service. It is required in most communities. They don't want people driving around town using city garbage cans to avoid paying every couple months. If you want to be off grid it best be 40 acres well off the literal grid.
Estates and Trusts get taxed and then the distributed money is taxable to the people lucky enough to inherit some. I am the executor of two estates and had to fire my accountant because she was too ambitious about asking for private info on all the people I was writing checks to. I told her the estate paid the taxes. It's up to each individual to claim their inheritance. That's why the best answer an accountant can give when you ask how much tax should I pay? is "How much do you want it to be".
