WILL ROBOTS BE THE TAX CLIENT BASE OF THE FUTURE FOR GO-AHEAD ACCOUNTING FIRMS?
February 1st, 2018
RENÉ Descartes may have said ‘I think, therefore I am’, to judge if he was human. But when deciding whether a robot is an autonomous being, the real test may be whether it pays tax. As regulators, business leaders and philosophers ponder the impact of robots with artificial intelligence (AI) that choose actions, learn from their environment, and perform tasks better and faster than their flesh and blood developers, the question of their fiscal responsibility is becoming serious.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates floated this suggestion in a 2017 interview with ...
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