French tax officials use AI to spot 20k undeclared pools (2022)

Look at these idiots using AI to find Tax Cheats, they should do like the USA IRS, and hire 80,000 new agents, arm them and get them to sign a document statingthey are willing to use deadly force (yes this actually happened here in the US this year)...

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Whats baffeling - is that the SEC should be all over this methodology - in fact - I am sure that there a re people out there right now building an AI to riffle through the Panama Papers and other "papers" scandals looking at shell companies for a way to blackmail those who are storing wealth in such.

Or using ai to find chinks-in-the-armor for ways to exploit said shell companies and their 'anonymous' owners...

I presonally used ChatGPT as well as AutoGPT to dive into Opensecrets.org and other online resources to look into the finances of congress - what their tenure is, age, salary, investments, committees served on and then major defense inititives, and the investments of congress into those contractors.

What I am trying to do is build a table of acts/laws passed which benefitted defense contractors, and then the stated investments by congress just prior to said defense deals which should reveal insider trading pretty definitively...

lol, I whipped up the exact same computer vision thing to detect faded road markings in satellite images, in under a week. Including a horrible day of labeling images for training.

But the thing is... look at their share price. Capgemini is doing something right because their market cap is going up all the time.

Their consultants are relatively expensive to hire, and they themselves get paid relatively little.

They (and firms like them) spend a ridiculous, soul-crushing amount on sales. Building relationships with the people that matter, to then cut deals that, on the face of it, just don't make any sense. Delivering what you promise is entirely optional in this business model. (So in a nice symmetrical way their underpaid consultants are also often undertrained, because who cares)

C'est la vie, I'm afraid...

> That doesn't sound like French government at all.

They don’t need to go there physically. They just need to review satellite pictures, do some background work, and send letters. The point is, the AI surfaces dubious cases but in the end it’s a human making the decision.

> The reputation of the tax office is that the tiniest of inconveniences is more than enough to prevent them from doing something.

That might be the reputation amongst people who’ve never been audited. They might be too lenient by default, but they will bite you if they have to.

> Oh and there's the surprisingly little known fact that French citizens torched most of the cars and half of the government departments, including Police stations, in Paris (and Marseille, and Lille, and Toulouse, and ...) on a regular basis for 5 years now. And I bet the recent pension reform is going to make that worse, not better.

It’s difficult to see exactly what you are trying to say here. Maybe try in French, with some sources?

> So I would like to add: they won't physically inspect these pools for the simple reason that nobody wants to get killed working for the tax agency in France, and that's exactly what will happen if they go out and physically check.

You are out of your bloody mind. They already do audits in person and they will come and check if they suspect some of your declarations are not truthful. Nobody will kill a taxman over something like that. I mean, now you’ve killed a civil servant to avoid paying taxes you should have paid, so you are going to jail, pay a fine, and still pay the taxes. On what planet are you living?

>Well you need tax payer money to finance the AI that find potential infrastructure problems

You mean like the tax-payer money paid at the pump which was sold as a way to finance the maintenance and fix of potential infrastructure problems?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-gas-taxs-tortured-...

Selective enforcement is one thing, but even perfectly enforced laws can be downright discriminatory. As someone once said: in its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.