A. Shaji George on Governments should tax capital, not lab…

A. Shaji George

Independent ICT researcher in Chennai, India; founder of PU Publications and author on AI, technology, and public policy.

AI poses a danger to this foundation because it reduces income, payroll and social security income for the workers while increasing the income of the capital owners at the same time when the need for public support might be increasing. [...] The tax on capital and corporate profits and on automation goes with the income and is used to finance the transition.

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A. Shaji George, “AI and the Future of Taxation Rethinking Government Revenue When Machines Replace Workers,” Partners Universal International Innovation Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, May–June 2026; Zenodo record published June 25, 2026, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20554725.

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Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy

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AI Unverifiable The Zenodo source was inaccessible. Search corroborates the single-author paper and its broad thesis, but not this exact stored excerpt, so authenticity cannot be confirmed. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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