Apply Existing Tax Rules to AI, Microsoft Executive Says
- Countries should focus on applying existing rules rather than creating new artificial intelligence and robot taxes, a top Microsoft Corp.
- Existing frameworks are capable of taxing artificial intelligence, said Daniel Goff, who leads Microsoft’s worldwide tax and customs organization, at the International Fiscal Association 2026 Melbourne Congress.
- “Rather than inventing a special AI tax or robot tax, I think we should first apply the rules that we have, and I think our existing rules actually accommodate a lot of the questions that you may have about where AI is going
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- Countries should focus on applying existing rules rather than creating new artificial intelligence and robot taxes, a top Microsoft Corp.
- Existing frameworks are capable of taxing artificial intelligence, said Daniel Goff, who leads Microsoft’s worldwide tax and customs organization, at the International Fiscal Association 2026 Melbourne Congress.
- “Rather than inventing a special AI tax or robot tax, I think we should first apply the rules that we have, and I think our existing rules actually accommodate a lot of the questions that you may have about where AI is going
Sources: Bloombergtax