French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000
undeclared pools
Posted By: Ribicon, 8/30/2022 10:03:17 PM
French tax authorities using AI software have found thousands of undeclared private swimming pools, landing the owners with bills totalling about €10m. The system, developed by Google and Capgemini, can identify pools on aerial images and cross-checks them with land registry databases. Launched as an experiment a year ago in nine French departments, it has uncovered 20,356 pools, the tax office said on Monday, and will be extended across the country.(Snip)The tax office–or le fisc, as it is known–says it is now looking at using the system to spot undeclared annexes, extensions and verandas including permanent pergolas. “We are particularly targeting house extensions like verandas,
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French tax authorities using AI software have found thousands of undeclared private swimming pools, landing the owners with bills totalling about €10m. The system, developed by Google and Capgemini, can identify pools on aerial images and cross-checks them with land registry databases. Launched as an experiment a year ago in nine French departments, it has uncovered 20,356 pools, the tax office said on Monday, and will be extended across the country.(Snip)The tax office–or le fisc, as it is known–says it is now looking at using the system to spot undeclared annexes, extensions and verandas including permanent pergolas. “We are particularly targeting house extensions like verandas,
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