Depends what you mean by Fall of Rome. Rome certainly didn't fall in a single day. If you're referring to the most commonly cited date for the fall of the Western empire i.e. the deposition of the usurper Romulus Augustus by Odoacer; then it didn't change at all. Remember that when Theodoric deposed Odoacer and ruled Italy he was technically doing it as the viceroy of the emperor in Constantinople

. In many ways their actually improved since the Goths taxes then at a much lower rate than the emperor did. They also continued to live by their own Roman laws as opposed to Gothic ones and considered themselves to still be an integral part of the empire.