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Any tax authority worth their budget should require extra evidence from any Big-4 customer. By now it's clear they are less reliable than your average smalltown accountant.

Unfortunately, there is typically a big revolving door between them and any tax institution. Why toil for decades in underpaid public roles, when you can step into the gilded world of consultancy and double or treble your salary? It's like the yacht scene in The Wolf of Wall Street, except in real life most civil servants take the corrupting deal (and I can't even blame them).




The audits done by the Big 5 in this context have nothing to do with taxes so.


Lol, if audits had to do with taxes and not defrauding investors, this would have made sense.




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