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| Hideto Koizumi |
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| ''On the implementability of a "robot tax"'' |
| ( 2023, Vol. 43 No.2 ) |
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| A "robot tax" has been recently attracting attention, while implementing such taxes is challenging, however, in part because of the difficulty in clearly separating which technologies substitute for labor from those which complement it. Modeling automating technologies as intermediate goods, this short note considers a simple illustrative model of the optimal tax policy in this environment. Despite the potential for automating technologies to be complementary to workers, I find that the optimal tax regime includes a strictly positive uniform tax on these intermediate goods with a restricted production functional form. |
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| Keywords: Automation, Intermediate Good Taxation, Robot Tax |
JEL: H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
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| Manuscript Received : May 21 2021 | | Manuscript Accepted : Jun 30 2023 |
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