Publication Type
Blog Post
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
7-2020
Abstract
As lockdowns ease around the globe and businesses reopen, the threat of jobs being automated by machines and workers being displaced as a result has significantly increased. Businesses must keep the number of workers on site to a minimum to comply with safe distancing measures. Under these constraints while social distancing remains the norm, automation might be the way forward for companies that still want to continue production while minimising human contact. The threat of a workforce being replaced by robots and automation, a threat that has already alarmed the labour movement, is heightened with Covid-19. There will be considerable layoffs.
Keywords
Tax Law, Taxation, Automation Taxation, Robot Tax, Regulation, Tax and Regulation
Discipline
Labor and Employment Law | Tax Law
Research Areas
Innovation, Technology and the Law; Corporate, Finance and Securities Law
Publisher
Elsevier
Citation
OOI, Vincent.
Revisiting the automation tax debate in light of Covid-19 and resulting structural unemployment. (2020).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3169
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