French tax authority pushes for automated controls despite mixed results
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/france-tax-automated-dgfip
Since 2014, a team of data-scientists supports local tax offices to help them identify complex fraud. But the motive could be more base : to make tax collectors redundant. 785 million euros. This is the amount tax collectors recovered in 2019 thanks to “data mining”, according to a statement by the French government in February 2020. This was made possible by a team of thirty data scientists. The group was set up in 2014 by the French tax authority (DGFiP) to develop machine learning (...)
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