I am no fan of government and I think taxes are theft, but I am also a realist and know that if you want to enjoy their payment rails you have to pay the fee.
I see it all the time, people thinking they too smart for the government because nothing has happened to them YET! The past doesn't equal the future and that gamblers fallacy will burn a lot of people. 99% of people who use bitcoin and crypto have horrible opsec and some think they can use a privacy coin and its all dandy and its going to erase all the times they dox'd themselves alone, there is a reason these chain analysis firms are around, they are government-funded projects
A lot of people are going to find they're not as wealthy as they think they are once that tax bill hits them in the face
You are so right. That's why I handle my taxes as well, also my crypto taxes. One can always bend the rules a bit, as many do, but in the end, our tax agencies know more about us than we like to believe. Even when they don't at the moment, they will in a few years. AI will help a lot. Added to that, even when someone not making any reference to his/her true ID and does not use a centralised exchange, the content itself + behavioural analyses will, in the end, make anonymous peeps, not so anonymous anymore, I'm pretty sure of that.