French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools

Scheme to be extended across the country after trial in nine departments led to extra €10m in tax receiptsFrench tax authorities using AI software have found thousands of undeclared private swimming pools, landing the owners with bills totalling about €10m.The system, developed by Google and Capgemini, can identify pools on aerial images and cross-checks them with land registry databases. Launched as an experiment a year ago in nine French departments, it has uncovered 20,356 pools, th