People are scared of taxes because the two reasons: first, because of low salary, they are scared of taxes because their salary are low but the deductions of taxes are almost bigger that their salary. secondly, is where does their taxes go? to the people in a society or in the pocket of the corrupt politicians who corrupted the budget of government just to satisfy their own. Taxes are actually a big help to a government itself, but some taxes are not for the society but for one person only. for me, that's the reason why people are scared of taxes.