I disagree. People are, by nature, individuals. It is very difficult to deny this claim.
Society is tricky, since pinning it down to a definition we both can agree on is probably very difficult. I view society as a voluntary association. You can join, you can also live by yourself, or you can live for a while with and without people.
We have many examples of societies where no taxes were extracted (medieval iceland, indians, for some, monaco, LIechtenstein
