"Financing the disruption and automation costs (notably universal basic income)" [2019] ELECD 1240; in Oberson, Xavier (ed), "Taxing Robots" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 160

Book Title: Taxing Robots

Editor(s): Oberson, Xavier

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Financing the disruption and automation costs (notably universal basic income)

Number of pages: 7

Abstract/Description:

Chapter 11, finally, opens the discussion on possible allocation by states of the revenues collected from robot taxes or taxes on the use on robots. To address the concern on labor income, the revenues from robot taxes could be allocated to education, apprentice possibilities, reinsertion or agencies devoted to promote more adequate skills for human workers. The chapter ends with another alternative, which is to use the funds from robot taxes in favor of a unitary basic income (UBI). It concludes that UBI is an interesting solution that needs careful consideration but requires a coordinated and global approach.