possibly. evidence for the severity of the plague strangely hard to come by.
It doubtless caused at least local problems, and some authors (including Procopius), are very insistent it was a catastrophe. Independent metrics though (frequency of dated inscriptions, papyri) don't seem to show much of a caesura.https://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/244/1/3/5532056?redirectedFrom=fulltext …
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so it's not immediately clear, if it was bad enough to cause revenue problems. But, I am not totally decided on this. Probably seventh-century taxation issues have multiple causes.
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