The legal taxation of the colonies was enacted by the colonial legislatures. Part of the reason why their taxation was low was because the colonies didn’t have the layers of bureaucracy/nobility that was seen in England. the colonies were also funded by sale of land.
My original response to you was because you stated the British government/Parliament was essentially trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor Americans, while refusing to tax the British themselves.
I was trying to point out that this was exactly backwards. The Brits were being very heavily taxed at the time, while it is likely the Americans were more tax-free then any people in history.
While (by contemporary standards, things have gotten much worse since) the British government of the time was corrupt, that had very little to do with the high rate of taxation. Also, the Brits did not have a great many bureaucrats at the time, as most administration was carried on thru essentially unpaid means by the local "gentry." The origin of the justice of the peace notion.
Britain had just completed the 7 Years War, basically a world war, that it had won primarily by outspending the enemy, an early example of the strategy by which America later won WWII and the Cold War. Britain could do so because its fiscal strength and its ability to mobilize this strength by taxation for national purposes was infinitely greater than that of France.
Much of this money had been spent in America and by doing so the Brits removed the only real enemy the Americans had on the continent. The Brits logically, though perhaps illegally, wanted the Americans to help pay some of the cost of the debt incurred by a war in which they had been among the primary benefeciaries.
The inability of the French government to match the British ability to tax efficiently, combined with its enormous expenditures in the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War, led to its fiscal collapse and the French Revolution. Just about everything modern American conservatives deplore in the modern world springs from the French Revolution.
So one can make a good case that the (net) good of the American Revolution was the primary direct cause of the evils against which we fight today.