It could be worse.
According to Nationmaster, residents of the Vatican paid $190,450.05 in taxes per person.
In Luxembourg (#10), it’s $12,110.34.
In Brunei (#25), only $6,981.32, only a bit ahead of the US (#27) at $6,702.42.
In Montserrat (#50), it’s $3,490.82.
In Lativa (#100), it’s $1,021.80.
(Weighted average for the top 100 is $5,105.84.)
In the Congo, it’s only $4.75, and apparently Cypriots paid no taxes at all.
In other news, “Government – Corruption” is most highly correlated with “Media – Personal computers (per capita)” (0.79 correlation).