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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 13505
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / Taxation

Pasquale Tridico MEP wants to tax outputs generated by artificial intelligence

Pasquale Tridico (The Left, Italian), MEP for the M5S and chair of the European Parliament’s Subcommittee on Tax Matters, announced to the press on Wednesday 16 October that he would like to see artificial intelligence (AI) taxed.

“IA is a source of income (...), that’s why it needs to be taxed”, he said. Mr Tridico aims to work on an own-initiative report from 2025, after the hearings of the European Commissioners. “We need to carry out investigations and research, and find a...

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