[andybak]

It's people that can afford pools on their property. They can afford to own property. I'm not shedding many tears here.

If even a tiny amount of the money recovered improves the lot of the vulnerable then I find it hard to put this at the top of my "this year's dystopian" list.

Your comment however might go on my own "most unimaginative definition of dystopian" list.

[seydor]

The problem with unaffordable housing all over europe should be solved with massive amounts public housing.

Pools should be taxed but that does not solve the problem. Everyone pretends they are not looking at the elephant in the room: draconian environmental regulations and lack of resources make the prices of housing go higher and higher. The governments have the money to solve that, instead of making it worse

[wouldbecouldbe]

It costed more to create the AI with capgemini then they recoverd.

One of the reason many of us hate taxes is because they always have a "punishment" mindset.

They rather lose money and punish someone.

Why tax swimming pools anyway?

[cinntaile]

You misunderstand, this is 10M euro extra tax revenue each year and it was only a pilot project covering a small part of France. The payback time is basically less than a year.

[wouldbecouldbe]

Regardless 25 million of tax money to another consultancy is the problem.

They are of one the biggest benificiaries of the modern western tax system.

It's a complicated problem to solve, but not a 25 million kind of complicated problem.

Also the bill isnt finished yet. 30% error rate, they are working on finetuning solving the issues.

[cinntaile]

ROI seems fine, I don't see the issue.