The Directorate General of Public Finances announced to AFP on Monday that its device for detecting undeclared swimming pools by artificial intelligence had made it possible to collect around 10 million euros and that it was going to generalize it to all of France.
The generalization will be done gradually on all the departments in France from September, she specified, confirming information from the Parisian.
The device, called Innovative Land, was developed in partnership with the consulting firm Capgemini and the American digital giant Google: it makes it possible to detect constructions or developments on aerial images and to check whether they have been declared and are correctly impossible
It had been experienced since last year in nine departments (Alpes-Maritimes, Var, Bouches-du-Rhne, Ardche, Rhne, Haute-Savoie, Morbihan, Maine-et-Loire and Vende) in detecting undeclared swimming pools and found more than 20,000, according to a report from Public Finance.
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A profitable project from 2023?
This represents nearly 10 million euros in additional revenue for the municipalities concerned for the year 2022 alone, indicates the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP). Of these 10 million euros, 5.7 million were collected to rectify the absence of taxation in previous years and 4.1 million for the 2022 property tax, which constitutes a resource taken for the municipalities according to the DGFiP.
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It estimates that gains in local direct taxes should reach nearly 40 million euros in 2023, once the system is generalized. These new resources, which will be partly recurring for local authorities, will ensure the profitability of the project from its second year of deployment, she further specifies, while its cost is estimated at 24 million euros over 2021-2023. .
Last September, the CGT Finances Publique union in Bouches-du-Rhne expressed its concern about the project, believing that it made it possible to save money and avoid recruiting agents in a context of continuous decline in DGFiP staff for several years.
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