A computer tax might make a bit more sense, but we want more compute, not less. I generally don't recommend taxing things we want more of.
I'm not sure we will need new taxes anyway. If robots can sufficiently replace human labor such as to warrant taxation in the first place, we would see huge economic growth/material progress.
This would have the effect of shrinking the cost of goods and services…including for those services provided by the government.
These canons are very useful - thanks! Yes, fully agree that it’s very difficult to design a robot tax that doesn’t violate these canons. I still think there are some issues to be resolved on the revenue / taxation side. Will look at universal basic dividend / pension funds / OCED-G20 BEPS etc in some of the next posts & interested in your take on these.
I have yet to see a concept for a “robot tax” that appears workable and doesnt violate the “Canons of Taxation.”: https://www.lianeon.org/p/just-tax-the-land
A computer tax might make a bit more sense, but we want more compute, not less. I generally don't recommend taxing things we want more of.
I'm not sure we will need new taxes anyway. If robots can sufficiently replace human labor such as to warrant taxation in the first place, we would see huge economic growth/material progress.
This would have the effect of shrinking the cost of goods and services…including for those services provided by the government.
These canons are very useful - thanks! Yes, fully agree that it’s very difficult to design a robot tax that doesn’t violate these canons. I still think there are some issues to be resolved on the revenue / taxation side. Will look at universal basic dividend / pension funds / OCED-G20 BEPS etc in some of the next posts & interested in your take on these.
I look forward to it!