The French tax authorities discovered 120,000 owners who “forgot” to declare their swimming pools

There were some 120,000 French caught by the tax administration of your country use swimming pools undeclared persons. All of them will receive a notice from the GDU in the following days to “invite” these forgetful taxpayers to officially report them and pay taxes. taxes corresponds.

The French treasury requests that within 30 days you submit documents with the date of start and end of the works, the area of ​​the pool and its characteristics. in a neighboring country it is mandatory to report them within 90 days from the date of construction and they are taxed with real estate tax if they have more than 10 square meters of surface area.

This “discovery” was not accidental. According to a French newspaper Le Parisienthe tax authorities had the support of Capgemini and Googlewhich was developed by a software fit for marriage aerial views of the National Institute for Geographical and Forestry Information (IGN) s cadastre data. That’s where the rabbit jumped. Artificial intelligence brought the anomalies to the table, and officials were tasked with verifying that the pools were on the books.

French councils are rubbing their fingers, because according to the estimates of the Ministry of Finance, between 40 and 50 million euros will be collected additionally this year. Those who raise their hands over their heads with untidy owners, whose tax bill will fatten up to 375 euros on average per undeclared pool.

The prosecutor does not want to stop there. Given the juicy revenue that can be gained from the use of artificial intelligence, its managers have announced that they will expand this technology to France other campaigns for detect more frauds such as illegal extensions or building houses without permission.