HMRC uses AI suspected tax cheating ‘social media’

HMRC has confirmed that it uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to monitor social media posts as part of criminal investigation into suspicious tax cheating.

It said that the technique would not replace “human decision making” and was subject to legal surveillance.

“Excessive use of AI will enable our employees to spend more time on the administrator and more time to help taxpayers, as well as theft to bring more money for better goals fraud and public services,” said in a statement.

However, experts have warned that there are risks with using AI in this way.

“AI HMRC can help to streamline its procedures and make it easier to compile all the available information about a person,” the accountancy firm RSM partner Chris Atherrington told BBC, “told BBC.

“There are definitely risks with it automatic and may be cases of incorrect identity, especially with fake or hacked social media accounts.

“To ensure appropriate decisions, this process will clearly need to be a human touch and all relevant information is reviewed.”

The tax authority said that it had used AI for many years to support his work, although it was first revealed that it was being used to monitor the social media accounts of suspected tax cheating. When reported by Daily Telegraph on Tuesday,

A spokesperson clarified that AI was used only as part of criminal investigation – not on everyday tax payer.

Government investigators have seen social media positions of people suspected of wrongdoing in relation to taxes and benefits for years.

In a famous example, a woman who claimed benefits citing her sick health Exposed through his social media post About the long distance race.

It is now known that HMRC is now partially automatic to the process through the use of AI – with human inspection.

It does not seem to come to the cost of jobs, the government has acquired 5,500 compliance staff with the announcement of the Tax Authority.

However, this disclosure comes at an uncomfortable time for the government, which is currently facing allegations from internal sources that its national institute for AI There is a risk of collapse,

The Technology Secretary has threatened to withdraw his funding, and wants him to focus on defense research.

Meanwhile, HMRC has already announced several attempts using AI that can effective its operation.

“It is not yet clear how far and fast HMRC has been found with its AI development, but it has already been successfully using software that compiles and analyzes data over the years,” Sri Atherrington said.

“The primary focus in HMRC appears to be on using AI to make life easier for taxpayers.”

He said that he hopes that the tax authority will be looked into on developing equipment that will help people correct their tax returns, as “a lot of tax revenue can lose through errors and mistakes”.

“It has also been announced that HMRC AI would be used to help taxpayers reaching more than 100,000 pages on their website,” he said.

“Anything that can help on that front is a possibility of welcome news for taxpayers because the current online guidance of HMRC can be frightening for many people.”