Re:Why taxing robots is not a good idea
by 6d6b73 on Friday February 24, 2017 @10:26AM
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How are you going to "fix" that amount? Does every hosting company must pay X amount of $? Or is it based on annual sales? If the latter, It should be fairly easy to open a new company after you reach your sales target.
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Tax them e.g. 50% of their revenue. And give them a tax rebate that is the sum of the salary for the human employees. That would be a big incentive to employ humans and still they can make good profit.
Revenue is not profit. Just because company brings a lot of revenue does not mean they can afford to hire people. This would essentially make it pointless to own a company.
It would be like a VAT. Every company would have to pay it. So it levels the field.
No, not every company. Only companies in the country that taxes automation. Other, smarter, countries would skip that tax and end up with cheaper products.
This whole "tax robots" idea would only end with higher prices for products, and it's the people that would have to pay these prices.