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I don't know if you have noticed most people with a dog on a leash, are also bent over a mobiie phone. Not only they take the dog(s) for walkies, it seems they take their phone for a bit of fresh air as well, without paying attention to the landscape. and I could see the toon above: the dog with its own phone actually taking the "master" where the dog wants....
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- By Gus Leonisky at 28 Aug 2022 - 8:45am
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tax on swimming…….
They say the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. That seems especially true in France where tax authorities have begun deploying artificial intelligence to snuff out thousands of undeclared swimming pools reportedly worth around $10 million in uncollected tax revenue. The country could soon expand its all-seeing pool AI to detect all sorts of undeclared home additions. Sorry gray market home improvement aficionados, it seems the jig is up.
French authorities said their new system managed to identify 20,356 undeclared pools spread out across the country during a limited test last year, according to a report spotted by The Guardian. The tax authorities reportedly partnered up with Google and tech firm Capgemini to create a system able to identify pools across the country through aerial images. Those pool images are then cross-referenced against a land registry database held by French tax authorities detailing the number of declared pools.
French homeowners are required to declare swimming pools since they can impact an individual’s property taxes. Those taxes would normally tick up after a homeowner installs a pool or makes a similar property modification…but only if the tax office knows. France reportedly has over three million private swimming pools making it the second largest market outside of the U.S, according to French news publication The Connexion. Pool construction in the country jumped up 30% in 2021.
Last year’s test reportedly only encompassed nine tax departments. Now, after raking in millions in uncollected tax revenues, French officials say they want to expand the program nationwide. They’re not stopping with pools either. According to The Guardian, officials want to expand the AI system to potentially detect verandas and permanent pergolas as well.
“We are particularly targeting house extensions like verandas, but we have to be sure that the software can find buildings with a large footprint and not the dog kennel or the children’s playhouse,” Antoine Magnant, France’s Deputy Director General of Public Finances reportedly said.
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