Publications on Steven Purcell http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/ Recent content in Publications on Steven Purcell Hugo -- gohugo.io en steven.ray.purcell@gmail.com (Steven Purcell) steven.ray.purcell@gmail.com (Steven Purcell) Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:38:05 -0500 Bloomberg Tax - Use Advanced Analytics to Combat Food Assistance Benefits Fraud http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/20230227/ Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:38:05 -0500 steven.ray.purcell@gmail.com (Steven Purcell) http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/20230227/ Use Advanced Analytics to Combat Food Assistance Benefits Fraud Summary A big-data and cloud computing approach to weeding out food benefits fraud would drastically improve the effectiveness of government auditors by doing the types of analytics that free up humans to think creatively and follow leads, says G2Lytics LLC’s Steven Purcell. Published February 27, 2023 Bloomberg Tax Bloomberg Tax - A Modern Approach to Tax Auditing Using Advanced Analytics http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/20230118/ Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:05:56 -0500 steven.ray.purcell@gmail.com (Steven Purcell) http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/20230118/ A Modern Approach to Tax Auditing Using Advanced Analytics Summary Fraudsters have had the benefit of underfunded tax authorities for years, but sophisticated tools such as advanced analytics processes and machine learning can make auditors and analysts more effective, efficient, and productive, says G2Lytics LLC’s Steven Purcell. Published January 18, 2023 Bloomberg Tax Tax Notes - Leveraging Big Data Analytics and AI to Combat the Sales Tax Gap http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/20221213/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:00:40 -0500 steven.ray.purcell@gmail.com (Steven Purcell) http://stevenpurcell.ninja/publications/20221213/ Leveraging Big Data Analytics and AI to Combat the Sales Tax Gap Summary Across the United States, State Comptrollers and Departments of Revenue are tasked with tax collection, audit activities, and criminal investigation. The task of tax auditing has largely been performed using many of the same technologies and methods for decades and has been patterned after the IRS compliance enforcement model. This model works well for the income tax where more than 85 percent of all income is verifiable through the filing of information returns and the returns contain a large volume of information for evaluation.