Russian tax authorities are checking businesses that use artificial intelligence, and this is already leading to mistakes.
The tax service has started using artificial intelligence to check documents, and business representatives are complaining about mistakes that put companies on the brink of bankruptcy. The Svetofor retail chain told Hizhar News that after an inspection by the Federal Tax Service in the Tula region, their companies were assessed an additional 147 million rubles in underpaid taxes. According to the business, this brought the company to the brink of bankruptcy.
The network found many inconsistencies in the inspection report. For example, an agreement for the supply of vegetables and fruits, signed in August 2021, is considered fictitious by the tax authorities, since according to the director of the opposite party he volunteered for SVO back in January 2021. But the SVO started only a year later. In another case, tax officials decided that no one had supplied goods to Svetophor because the deeds specified periods, not specific dates. Another point regarding the "lost" 689 kg of cucumbers actually turned out to be a difference of 11 kg - the figure is actually inflated more than 62 times.
A total of 396 errors were found in the document. Lawyers believe that these are traces of the work of artificial intelligence: the program passes assumptions as facts and confuses dates that a person cannot help but know. According to the head of DMPRAVO, Daria Mikhailova, the company is currently working with 30 tax audit complaints from seven regions, and lawyers everywhere suspect the use of artificial intelligence. Sotofor's objections with evidence on 174 sheets were considered the next day, and the management of the Federal Tax Service twice refused to answer if they read the act with almost 400 errors.
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