Basic Income is meant to cost less than current tax and benefits as the bureaucracy to means test every request for benefits is a lot less or even totally redun

Basic Income is meant to cost less than current tax and benefits as the bureaucracy to means test every request for benefits is a lot less or even totally redundant. Ie less forms, less interviews, less investigations, less complaints, less fraud, and in the end less bureaucrats, ie cheaper. Obviously that does not happen over night, and no country/state/province has gone full Basic Income yet (Universal nor Negative) so still just theory.