{"id":20618,"date":"2013-05-09T09:44:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T08:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=20618"},"modified":"2013-05-09T09:44:38","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T08:44:38","slug":"ernst-young-an-organisation-that-sees-intellectual-credibility-public-opinion-and-economic-opportunity-slipping-away-from-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/09\/ernst-young-an-organisation-that-sees-intellectual-credibility-public-opinion-and-economic-opportunity-slipping-away-from-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernst &#038; Young: an organisation that sees intellectual credibility, public opinion and economic opportunity slipping away from them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right at the close of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ey.com\/Publication\/vwLUAssets\/Tax_Transparency_-_Seizing_the_initiative\/$FILE\/EY_Tax_Transparency.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Ernst &amp; Young report on\u00a0country-by-country reporting <\/a>they disclose some very telling detail. They say this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-09-at-09.36.46.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20619\" alt=\"Screen shot 2013-05-09 at 09.36.46\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-09-at-09.36.46.png\" width=\"597\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-09-at-09.36.46.png 597w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-09-at-09.36.46-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-shot-2013-05-09-at-09.36.46-200x82.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a>This is their only reference to\u00a0Tax Justice Network, but that'snot the point here. The real issue is that this is where another\u00a0Ernst &amp; Young\u00a0paranoia\u00a0is revealed. What is clear is that they now believe that people like Christian Aid and the\u00a0Tax Justice Network are believed more readily when it comes to tax than\u00a0Ernst &amp; Young are.<\/p>\n<p>What is more they realise that very soon\u00a0country-by-country reporting is going to need auditing, and people may not believe\u00a0Ernst &amp; Young or their credibility when it comes to assessing the truth and fairness of the resulting reports.<\/p>\n<p>APart from the fact that\u00a0Ernst &amp; Young in the process also reveal that there is very real\u00a0corporate\u00a0benefit to country-by-country reporting (something I have long argued) there is also in here a desperate bid to retain part of their audit market that they see might\u00a0slip\u00a0away from them.<\/p>\n<p>I have\u00a0described\u00a0the Ernst &amp; Young <a title=\"Why are Ernst &amp; Young wilfully misrepresenting country-by-country reporting? Could it be they\u2019re frightened of the NGO demands?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/09\/why-are-ernst-young-wilfully-misrepresenting-country-by-country-reporting-could-it-be-theyre-frightened-of-the-ngo-demands\/\" target=\"_blank\">report as 'sorry'<\/a>. It is. This is a report from an organisation that sees intellectual credibility, popular support, public opinion and economic\u00a0opportunity\u00a0all slipping away from them on this issue. No wonder they're worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right at the close of the\u00a0Ernst &amp; Young report on\u00a0country-by-country reporting they disclose some very telling detail. They say this: This is their only reference<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/05\/09\/ernst-young-an-organisation-that-sees-intellectual-credibility-public-opinion-and-economic-opportunity-slipping-away-from-them\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-by-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}