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Kelly’s AI Tax Bill Struggles to Link Tech With Economic Harms

SpeculationPolicyOct 6, 2026

Sen. Mark Kelly introduced the Make AI Work for Americans Act, proposing three taxes on AI activity to fund worker adjustment programs. The bill would tax "computational processing" defined as 10 kilobytes of binary data, levy 5% on covered digital advertising revenue, and impose a 50% tax on income exceeding 40% of gross receipts for covered AI-related firms. Critics argue the tax bases—data volume, ad revenue, profits—do not reliably measure the labor-market harms the legislation targets.

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