We pay taxes to state or to the country. Country spend money from the taxes to the workers salary, use for repair works, and some percents go to the countries budget. Citizens of the country where they earn the money, pay 3 to 10 percents to the government. Big organisations or associations pay around 20 percent tax, amount of tax depends from money you earn each month.
There is some disadvantages of paying taxes. For instance: in european countries a big amount of taxes, in europe you pay more taxes than other countries. It means that the percentage of tax payment is big. If you say that 30 percents of salary goes to the country you have 70 percent of earning, in some cases it is not so lot. For example : my dad lived 6 years in Turkey, and he had just one sim card for all this 6 years, and for having this sim card you pay every year around 200 dollars. Of course it is a big money for some people but this law was made against scammers, because they can scam you from any other phone number.
A lot of people thinks that paying taxes is unprofitable and they believe that kepping all the money they earn is better than paying big taxes. Maybe these people are right because, government pay salary to the workers and then workers pay some percents of salary to the government.
In conclusion, if pepople be able to keep all the money they earn instead of paying taxes their standart of living would increase. Government has a lot of ways to earn money, however tourism and taxes are main source of money.