Brazilian Company Uses Drones to Tackle Property Tax Evasion

A Brazilian company is carrying out a trial with drones to reduce property tax evasion in a town in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.

The equipment is being used by tax collection agency Crescite, who works on behalf of the local government, to measure properties in the city of Paulista and get information needed to calculate the tax amount for that particular unit.

“Properties – particularly in more affluent areas – often get extended without an official permit and increase in value, but the amount of tax they have to pay also increases and people are not paying that extra amount, so the government is losing out on revenue,” Crescite’s diretor Paulo Resende tells ZDNet.

“The drone technology will allow us to get more accurate data on these properties in a cost-effective way, speed up the process of updating property information records and ultimately reduce tax avoidance,” Resende adds.

A trial covering an area of Paulista with high levels of tax evasion and some 20,000 houses will commence next month and is expected to last three months.

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