Only 23 countries officially do not have personal income tax:
The Top 15 Countries With No Income Tax
We can summarize them as the Persian Gulf States and the Caribbean tax havens. The Persian Gulf states live off oil and gas. They don't tax their citizens. On the contrary, they give them royal salaries for being redundant ghosts on the government payroll. The Caribbean tax havens, on the other hand, make lots of money from not having taxes. It is some kind of service to wealthy individuals across the globe. Dubai is doing both.
The so-called "fragile" countries do not levy income tax either. At best, they collect a final salary tax from large employers. There is no tax return, so to speak of, in these countries.
They already had all of these public services in 1913 in the USA.
They simultaneously introduced personal income tax and the federal reserve in order to support the value of the paper fiat dollar through additional taxation.
They did not need the extra money for services that they were providing and funding already. They needed a lever to boost the scarcity of the fiat dollar in case it ended up losing steam. If people did not value the dollar enough, they could still force them to go on a search for dollars in order to pay for exorbitant income taxes.
https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert ... -tax-rates
1913–1915 7% <- How could they pay for "everything" with just 7% income tax?
Well, they had always paid for everything with no income tax at all.
1925–1931 25%
1932–1933 63% <- start of the fiat banking crisis and confiscation of gold and silver to support the paper dollar
1934–1935 63%
1936–1940 79%
So, you are essentially only paying for one public service through your personal income tax: the fiat bankstering system.
A so-called fragile state has no effective income taxation as well as a Mickey Mouse fiat currency. These things are very related. Without a system of exorbitant income taxation, it is not possible to sustain the value of the paper currency and to pay for the gambling, money printing, and outright fraud by the fiat banksters.