{"id":65629,"date":"2022-11-14T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=65629"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:18:33","slug":"is-the-institute-of-chartered-accountants-in-england-and-wales-unethically-using-the-fines-paid-to-it-by-firms-that-have-failed-in-their-professional-duties-to-enrich-other-chartered-accountants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/14\/is-the-institute-of-chartered-accountants-in-england-and-wales-unethically-using-the-fines-paid-to-it-by-firms-that-have-failed-in-their-professional-duties-to-enrich-other-chartered-accountants\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales unethically using the fines paid to it by firms that have failed in their professional duties to enrich other chartered accountants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/06\/07\/the-icaew-has-now-earned-more-than-10-million-fines-paid-by-audit-firms-in-a-few-weeks-with-no-explanation-as-to-what-it-will-do-with-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June I wrote this blog post:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07-550x679.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07-550x679.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07-243x300.png 243w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07-768x948.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07-1245x1536.png 1245w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07-324x400.png 324w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.17.07.png 1292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today I was looking at my Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales renewal notification for next year and noted this comment on the invoice suggesting how much I will pay:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65631\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.12.15-550x101.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.12.15-550x101.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.12.15-768x141.png 768w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.12.15-600x110.png 600w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Screenshot-2022-11-14-at-10.12.15.png 1242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In other words, I am to get free things I previously paid for. My personal saving compared to last year is \u00a3259.<\/p>\n<p>In all seriousness, should chartered accounts really be the beneficiaries of the fines paid by those chartered accountants who do not properly comply with regulation and are fined for not doing so? I think not, but that is very obviously what is happening.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has a duty to be professionally ethical. I rather strongly suspect that the ICEAW's failure to mention the reason why it can be so bountiful to its membership at this time is unethical, and I do not think the use of these funds in this way is ethical either. The ICAEW is a very long way from putting all its explanations for what is happening face up on the table for all to see, and that is unethical as far as I am concerned.<\/p>\n<p>If the ICEAW wish to reply I will publish their response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June I wrote this blog post: Today I was looking at my Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales renewal notification for next<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2022\/11\/14\/is-the-institute-of-chartered-accountants-in-england-and-wales-unethically-using-the-fines-paid-to-it-by-firms-that-have-failed-in-their-professional-duties-to-enrich-other-chartered-accountants\/\"><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":[67,26,16,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountancy","category-accounting","category-ethics","category-icaew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65629","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=65629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}