AI Summit 2024: Industry Minister Ed Husic is right to ask whether tax reform will be needed as part of the artificial intelligence revolution

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AI threatens to change everything, from education and infrastructure to manufacturing and energy. Industry Minister Ed Husic is right to ask whether tax reform will be needed as part of this revolution.

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Suncorp’s tech boss Adam Bennett says we’ll need different skills and capabilities if Australia is to capture the millions of little productivity boosts that AI can deliver to individuals. Husic said Labor’s efforts to get wage growth up and deliver the stage three tax cuts might pave the way for corporate tax reform on the agenda.

Tax reform to encourage investment of all types is clearly a major issue. As Commonwealth Bank chief executive Matt Comyn pointed out, the way many foreign nations have made AI capacity an issue of national security and national economic security means the Australian government will need to think hard about how big Australia’s home-grown AI sector needs to be. And the obvious question is how we encourage and pay for that investment.

 

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