A value-added tax will always fall under the category of either a sales or excise tax. - Prohibited by the Amendment. An occupation tax will always fall under the category of either an income tax, excise tax, or a capitation tax. - All prohibited by the Amendment.
Note that in order to enforce a tax, there has to be a statement as to what the tax is based on. So they can name a tax whatever they like (for instance, the “Magoogapuppy” tax) - But in order to extract funds from any entity whatsoever, the law will have to stipulate what the tax is actually based on. Raising hypothetical questions as to what any tax law might be based on is not the same as answering the question as to what a tax law is based on. Without that answer, no taxes can be collected because no collector of the tax would have a basis on which to begin collection. None of your examples fell outside of the tax prohibitions listed.
As far as the States confiscating your property - that’s unconstitutional too. As far as the Congress raising the tax rate on State revenues to 90%, they will no more have the political will to do that than do today to raise the individual income tax rate to 90% on all Americans. In fact Congress will have far less political will to raise taxes that absurdly high against the collective will of fifty State governments than they do now against all individual citizens.
A major point of the Amendment is that citizens and State governments will have a common and calcified goal: keeping Federal taxes low. And that no Congressional representative will be able to survive politically by hurting the interests of his State by voting for excessively wasteful budget bills that will require the States’ Tax Rates to be raised.