# House members introduce the AI Tax and Work Protection Act (H.R. 10044), an excise tax on AI tokens

- **Record type**: Change log entry
- **Occurred on**: 2026-08-06
- **Jurisdiction**: United States
- **Impact level**: Routine
- **Status after the change**: Proposed

## What changed

H.R. 10044 would tax large AI companies on the value of the tokens their models process or on AI-service revenue, whichever is higher, with a rate that rises automatically as unemployment climbs, and would create a Work Protection Administration in the Department of Labor to fund jobs. Introduced by Representatives Sara Jacobs, Greg Casar and Valerie Foushee. Recorded from secondary reporting; confirm on Congress.gov.

## What it means in practice

No obligations; a proposal to watch in the economic-transition tracker.

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2026-08-06-us-house-ai-tax-and-work-protection-act-introduced
- **Official source**: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/10044
- **Source document**: H.R. 10044, AI Tax and Work Protection Act
- **Published by**: Congress.gov
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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