this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
1081 points (97.5% liked)
Programmer Humor
31683 readers
1652 users here now
Welcome to Programmer Humor!
This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!
For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.
Rules
- Keep content in english
- No advertisements
- Posts must be related to programming or programmer topics
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I wonder at what point government will tax AI use by companies similarly to payroll taxes and incomes taxes.
If they pay an AI company $150,000 a month to replace $50,000 in salaries, the government then loses all that income tax from the previous employees as well as the payroll tax on $600k a year.
Uh they'll just claim the AI is being used in another country then?
There's really no way to definitively decide the tax jurisdiction of an AI agent.
Good luck figuring this one out without a tax on unrealized gains in companies and good luck figuring that one out for companies if they can just scheme around it by reinvesting all their profit indefinitely.
A complete ban on AI might be in order.
Just use their primary tax address in the country.
Which country?
You can't increase taxes on companies. They'll leave the country.
Oh no! What if they took all their fucking datacenters and their pollution and their buying all RAM and their pulling all electricity out of the grid with them?
What on god's green Earth makes you think they would?
Well if not, then all their stuff is still there and could be seized. Say.. as a moving-out-of-country-tax
That would ruin the reputation of your country
Oh shit, you weren't sarcastic?
Lol no
Great sarcasm!
That is sarcasm, right?
Nope
If they don't contribute their share to taxes, why would I as a citizen want them?
Do have what they already give.
What, the 0 dollars the billionaire pay?
I thought you meant the companies.
Same statement. They don't pay corporate tax either.
They absolutely do. They don't pay enough but they don't pay nothing either.
If they're not paying enough, why are we subsidising them? Why are they still benifical?
Do you think if Walmart had to pay all of the food stamp costs of their employees, do you think Walmart would dissapear and replaced by nothing?
I also encourage you to look up how much federal tax Amazon pays
Rules like forcing companies to pay for food stamp costs for employees are definitely a better solution than trying to increase their taxes.
I don't think you understand what a century tax is. Because thats what that is.
I definitely don't know what a century tax is and can't find anything on Google. Care to elaborate?
Sorry auto correct got the best ofe there. Just what a tax is.
Its just a charge levied by the government. You think taxes are only income taxes, but thats just one type of tax.
In the same way tarrifs are also taxes, so would be making an employer pay for govermenet benifit, would also be a tax.
Yes but taxes can be subverted by changing the registered address of the company. Can't say the same about food stamps.
That doesn't make it not a tax. It makes it not an income tax.
Whatever.
Damn, I wish that was true
Why?
Too late, already happened. It's the reason why Ireland is the home for such notable Irish tech companies as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Meta, and others.
Those are American companies
Bingo, but that's not what the legal paper work says.
That is what the legal paper work says. For Google, for instance, it says Delaware.