&gt;  They would devote enough resources to make sure that you and your accountant were sufficiently overwhelmed.<p>Is this strategy not extortion?<p>For freelance earnings, I&#x27;ve been offered similar accountancy insurance as well. I was told that if I was investigated (not because I&#x27;d done anything wrong, just from random selection) it could cost several thousand to pay an accountant to do the work an audit would require. This always struck me as a broken system.