{"id":852469,"date":"2026-08-12T09:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852469\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T09:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:48:09","slug":"ai-induced-job-losses-threaten-to-erode-australias-tax-base-what-does-the-government-plan-to-do-about-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/852469\/","title":{"rendered":"AI-induced job losses threaten to erode Australia\u2019s tax base. What does the government plan to do about this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of artificial intelligence destroying many jobs has led Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and democratic socialist Bernie Sanders to call for a \u201crobot tax\u201d to fund support for displaced workers and to slow the automation of tasks.<\/p>\n<p>However, in Australia, there has been almost no public discussion about a related potential challenge: the possibility that AI could erode the tax collections of governments and their ability to fund crucial services.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The possibility of artificial intelligence destroying many jobs has led Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and democratic socialist Bernie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-852469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}