Tax & Spend
Turkish Fortune Tellers Find Their Future Includes Tax Audits
In Turkey, AI technologies have been engaged to track digital footprints across multiple platforms.
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Turkey’s Treasury and Finance Ministry is using artificial intelligence to track down money earned by psychics and fortune tellers as part of a broader drive to combat the informal economy and boost tax revenue.
The ministry has turned its attention to the rapid growth of online services such as astrology, spiritualism, star charting, magic, meditation, and numerology — many of which operate without clear regulation.