Simulating UBI Policy Impacts by Digitising Tax Policies

Simulating UBI Policy Impacts by Digitising Tax Policies

Universal basic income (UBI) has been proposed as a potential solution some of the biggest threats faced by modern workers: wage inequality, job insecurity – and the looming possibility of AI-induced job losses. I led a team to collect data on tax policies for G20 countries and develop an R Shiny app to simulate different taxation paradigms.

Project Overview

Motivation Understanding the impacts of taxation reform requires a highly specific understanding of existing taxation and benefit schemes, yet most governments do not digitise their various taxation policies
Data Developed methodology for digitising a wide variety of tax systems and produced analytical simulations for G20 countries
Client PolicyEngine
Status In Progress
Outcome TBD