I agree about the principle you propose. I'm certainly not saying taxing the robots is how it should be, just that it might be easier.
Governments might rather tax robots than properly deal with anonymous corporations playing extremely aggressive tax avoidance games.
Pushing money around the world has become so much easier. Try to make countries give up on fiscal anonymity, tax avoidance marketing or even plain tax evasion marketing. It might work on some micro nations, but good luck trying it with countries like the US...
Governments might rather tax robots than properly deal with anonymous corporations playing extremely aggressive tax avoidance games.
Pushing money around the world has become so much easier. Try to make countries give up on fiscal anonymity, tax avoidance marketing or even plain tax evasion marketing. It might work on some micro nations, but good luck trying it with countries like the US...