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The French government has collected nearly \u20ac10 million<\/a> in additional taxes after using machine learning to spot undeclared swimming pools in aerial photos. In France, housing taxes are calculated based on a property\u2019s rental value, so homeowners who don\u2019t declare swimming pools are potentially avoiding hundreds of euros in additional payments. <\/p>\n
The project to spot the undeclared pools began last October<\/a>, with IT firm Capgemini working with Google to analyze publicly available aerial photos taken by France\u2019s National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information. Software was developed to identify pools, with this information then cross-referenced with national tax and property registries. <\/p>\n
The project is somewhat limited in scope, and has so far analyzed photos covering only nine of France\u2019s 96 metropolitan departments. But even in these areas, officials discovered 20,356 undeclared pools, according to an announcement this week from France\u2019s tax office, the General Directorate of Public Finance (DGFiP), first reported by Le Parisien<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nCovid lockdowns and soaring temperatures have made private pools more popular in France<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nAs of 2020, it was estimated that France had around 3.2 million<\/a> private swimming pools, but constructions have reportedly surged as more people worked from home during COVID-19 lockdowns, and summer temperatures have soared across Europe. <\/p>\n
Ownership of private pools has become somewhat contentious in France this year, as the country has suffered from a historic drought that has emptied rivers of water<\/a>. An MP for the French Green party (Europe \u00c9cologie les Verts) made headlines after refusing to rule out a ban on the construction of new private pools<\/a>. The MP, Julien Bayou, said such a ban could be used as a \u201clast resort\u201d response. He later clarified his remarks on Twitter, saying<\/a>: \u201c[T]here are ALREADY restrictions on water use, for washing cars and sometimes for filling swimming pools. The challenge is not to ban swimming pools, it is to guarantee our vital water needs.\u201d <\/p>\n
France\u2019s tax offices, the DGFiP (known more commonly as Le Fisc), says it now plans to expand the use of its AI-pool-spotter to the entirety of metropolitan France (excluding the country\u2019s overseas departments), which could net an additional \u20ac40 million in taxes. <\/p>\n
Early reports on the project suggested that the machine learning software had an unusually high error rate of 30 percent, and regularly mistook other architectural features \u2014 like solar panel installations \u2014 for swimming pools. Now, though, Le Fisc says it\u2019s ironed out these problems, and is looking to expand the use of its software spotting pools to identifying other undeclared and taxable housing improvements, like extensions and annexes. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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\u2019s playhouse,\u201d Antoine Magnant, the deputy director general of public finances, told Le Parisien, <\/em>reports The Guardian<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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