Service: Evasometro Anonimizzato - Big data analysis of taxpayer behaviour

Responsible organisation: Italian Tax Authority (Agenzia delle Entrate) (Central-Government)

Called “Evasometro Anonimizzato”, the tool will include “specific algorithms”, wrote financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, and will be able to cross-check the different databases held by the Italian fiscal authorities for inconsistencies in consumption patterns or in any other financial operation. Anomalies recognized by the “digital eyes” of the system will alert fiscal authorities, who can then summon flagged individuals for further scrutiny. This algorithmic-driven monitoring has to be coupled with that of “open sources”, such as “news articles, websites and social media”, by the Italian fiscal authority, Agenzia delle Entrate. The monitoring system has been active since 2016, but was largely unknown to the public until January 2020. It was devised to “acquire all elements that could be useful in knowing the taxpayer”, thereby helping the institution check the consistency of each individual’s fiscal behavior (Corriere della Sera 2019b).

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
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Start/end date 2020 -
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