Washington, Feb 19 (PTI) Robots that steal human jobs should pay taxes, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has said.
“Certainly there will be taxes that relate to automation.
Right now, the human worker who does, say, USD 50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, social security tax, all those things,” Gates told Quartz website.“If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level,” said Gates, one of the world’s richest men.Gates said he believes that governments should tax companies’ use […]
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