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Most OECD countries tax labour income significantly more heavily than capital income. When AI displaces a worker, the income that worker would have earned does not disappear — it shifts from wages to profits, and in doing so moves from a higher-taxed base to a lower one.
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Trish Ieong, Akbar Saputra, Anuja Maniar and Deric Cheng, “When AI Grows the Economy but Shrinks the Tax Base,” Windfall Trust, May 14, 2026.
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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy
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Disputed Windfall Trust attributes the article to four individual coauthors; the passage is not presented as a sole quote by Trish Ieong, so it cannot be verified as a single-author quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Windfall Trust article, 14 May 2026, contains this wording and lists Trish Ieong as coauthor. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 1mo ago
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