Vancouver Property Owner Used AI for Lower Tax Assessment

The owner of a $19 million Vancouver property, Fu D. Ren, reduced his tax assessment by nearly $1 million but was found to have breached the Property Assessment Appeal Board’s code of conduct, possibly using AI to produce false legal case citations. The board upheld a new assessment of $18,144,000, noting potential costs for the misleading submission, which included fabricated references.

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