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Midweek Roundup: New York Eyes Gun Merchant Code, France Taps AI, Satellite Imagery to Find Untaxed Swimming Pools, and More

Nearly 50 state lawmakers in New York signed a letter urging credit card networks to implement a merchant category code for gun shops to enable the detection and reporting of suspicious purchases of firearms, Gothamist reported. More French authorities used artificial intelligence to review satellite images and discover more than 20,000 unreported swimming pools in their country as part of an effort that will yield an estimated €10 million in unpaid property taxes, The New York Times reported. More German authorities raided JPMorgan Chase's office in Frankfurt as part of a sprawling, Europe-wide investigation into the multibillion-euro tax fraud scheme known as "cum-ex," Bloomberg reported....

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