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Director of Research at Windfall Trust; lead of AGI Social Contract initiative; AI economics and policy researcher
Tax revenues globally could be at risk from transformative artificial intelligence (TAI) due to a shift from labor to capital, the concentration of economic profits, and weak international tax coordination. [...] A progressive global corporate profit tax would help counteract such tax base erosion.
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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 The source URL contains the passage: the first sentence matches, and the page later says, “We propose that a progressive global corporate profit tax would help counteract such tax base erosion,” so the stored excerpt is a faithful abridgment. However, the article is credited to three individual authors — Deric Cheng, Anna Schuh, and Tam Trinh — and is dated Feb. 17, 2026, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote by Deric Cheng alone. ([windfalltrust.substack.com](https://windfalltrust.substack.com/p/a-progressive-global-corporate-tax-for-the-age-of-ai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago
Disputed The source URL contains the quoted passage verbatim with the ellipsis bridging two consecutive sentences in the Feb. 17, 2026 post (lines 29–30). However, the byline credits the article to Deric Cheng, Anna Schuh, and Tam Trinh, so attributing the quote to Deric Cheng alone is incomplete/misattributed. ([windfalltrust.substack.com](https://windfalltrust.substack.com/p/a-progressive-global-corporate-tax-for-the-age-of-ai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. Source URL (Substack) returned 403 to WebFetch, but a targeted web search for the exact phrase confirms it appears in 'A Progressive Global Corporate Tax For the Age of AI' by Deric Cheng (also mirrored at agisocialcontract.org). Author attribution is correct - Cheng is Director of Research at Windfall Trust and leads the AGI Social Contract initiative on AI economics. Vote 'for' on statement 'Governments should tax capital, not labor, as AI makes human work less central to the economy' aligns perfectly: the quote argues for a progressive global corporate (capital) profit tax to counteract erosion of labor-tax base under TAI. Year 2026 is current. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 4mo ago
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