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AI for Revenue Agencies – EU Overview

This page provides a high-level summary of our individual country reports and disaggregated data on the use of AI by tax administrations: the major functions performed with machine-learning, the Member States with the highest level of maturity in the use of AI, the different domestic norms regulating the use of AI by tax administrations, and more...

The eKasa case

The 17th December 2021, the Slovak Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that a State-mandated electronic cash register system which obliged entrepreneurs to transfer VAT data to the Slovak Financial Directorate in real-time, was incompatible with taxpayers’ fundamental rights.

The toeslagenaffaire (The Dutch childcare allowance scandal)

On the 15th of January 2021, the entire cabinet of Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of the Netherlands was forced to resigned amidst the revelation that the social security unit of the Dutch tax administration had unlawfully discontinued and requested the reimbursement of childcare allowances to 35.000 parents, leading those into serious financial hardship. A machine-learning algorithm used by the tax administration discriminated thousands of welfare recipients.

Systeem Risico Indicatie (SyRI)

In February 2020, the Court of the Hague halted the use of Systeem Risico Indicatie, a risk-scoring algorithm to be used by the Dutch tax administration following the claims by civil society interest groups that the algorithm would violate several fundamental rights of taxpayers residing in The Netherlands.