FrancePublic sector2021–2023French public finance directorate (DGFiP)
Foncier innovant: aerial-image detection of undeclared swimming pools
French tax authority found over 20,000 undeclared pools in a nine-department pilot using AI on aerial images, worth about EUR 10 million in 2022
Problem
Local property taxes depend on owners declaring new pools and extensions, and checking them by hand across the country was slow.
Approach
The tax directorate built the tool with Capgemini and Google. It spots structures on aerial images, then checks whether they were declared and taxed. Detection began in September 2021 in nine departments, including Var and Bouches-du-Rhone, and a national rollout was announced for September 2022. Project cost was estimated at EUR 24 million for 2021-2023. A union in Bouches-du-Rhone feared it would be used to cut hiring.
Results
Takeaway
The tax authority used aerial images to find undeclared pools, then checked their tax status. It forecast about EUR 40 million in additional revenue for 2023 after a national rollout.
Categories
- Size
- Large enterprise
- Industry
- Public sector
- Business function
- Finance, risk and legal
- Innovation type
- Process innovation
- AI technology
- Computer vision
- Adoption
- Co-developed with a partner
- Evidence
- Company's own claim
Sources
Source summaries
Relays the DGFiP results given to AFP. More than 20,000 undeclared pools were found in nine pilot departments, with about EUR 10 million in extra revenue in 2022 and a forecast of about EUR 40 million in 2023. It gives the EUR 24 million cost estimate and names Capgemini and Google as partners.
Reports the same DGFiP announcement: over 20,000 pools in the nine-department trial, about EUR 10 million in 2022 (5.7 million back taxes, 4.1 million property tax) and a national rollout from September. It also gives the 24 million euro cost estimate for 2021-2023.
Full details are in the original sources.
