The proposed changes to IAS 12 will result in producing financial statements upon the presumption that tax authorities have been fully and correctly informed and will investigate tax positions, thus disregarding any detection risk. As a result adherence to this formula should normally reveal all (contingent) tax liabilities, even those that have not been declared to the tax authorities. While this is how the accounting system should function (and how government would want it to), we must consider that this formula is also a recipe for disclosing previous tax offences under threat of a severe (accounting) penalty. Disclosures of one’s own estimates of success in tax litigation may also be detrimental to bona fide legal positions in case of upcoming or pending court cases.