Lee Jun-seok "Using AI to confirm tax leakage of 562.8 billion won in national market"

On the 8th, Rep. Lee Jun-seok of the New Reform Party announced that they had uncovered a waste of taxpayer money exceeding 562.8 billion won in data from the Public Procurement Service's National Marketplace using artificial intelligence (AI) and data analysis technology.

This includes cases where the product was purchased at an absurdly high price without considering the market price, cases where a contract for a free or universal program was extended according to the highest price list set several years ago, and cases where the quantity or bidding qualifications were abnormally adjusted so that only a specific company could deliver and accepted the delivery at the highest price.

The New Reform Party and Rep. Lee decided to use this as an opportunity to hold a program development contest, 'Project to Find 50 Trillion in Taxes: Nara Market Hackathon', a program development contest with the public.

The hackathon (savetax.now) will be held from the 12th to the 25th, and participants can use the MCP (Model Context Protocol), API, and public contract original data provided on the website to find contracts that are excessively expensive than the market price using an AI tool or analysis program that they are comfortable with and submit it as a form file.

The party distributes a total of 10 million won in prize money to all participants according to the ratio of the amount determined to be an actual valid fraudulent or fraudulent contract through AI and working-level inspection.

Rep. Lee emphasized, “People are looking for the lowest price to save just 100 won, but the government is paying taxes to filter out the rip-offs that could have been filtered out with just one search.” He added, “The New Reform Party will work with all the people to close that open back door.”