{"id":6143,"date":"2015-09-02T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=6143"},"modified":"2015-09-02T10:39:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T15:39:55","slug":"texas-tax-firm-falsely-claimed-iso-31000-certification-by-registrar-icl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/texas-tax-firm-falsely-claimed-iso-31000-certification-by-registrar-icl\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tax Firm Falsely Claimed ISO 31000 Certification by Registrar ICL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas R&amp;D Tax Credit Solutions, an accounting and corporate tax firm, improperly claimed its risk management system was certified to ISO 31000 by registrar International Certifications Ltd (ICL). The website for the tax firm included the claim alongside\u00a0an outdated logo for ICL.<\/p>\n<p>Oxebridge reported the problem to both ICL and its accreditation body JAS-ANZ, and ICL reported the logo was not used with permission, and Texas Tax Credit was never a client of ICL.<\/p>\n<p>The logo and claim has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texastaxcredit.com\/about-us\/risk-management-policy\/\">since been removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ISO 31000 is not a standard designed to be used for certification, although some registrars &#8212; including ICL, as well as BSI, SGS and SAI Global &#8212; offer unaccredited certifications to it.<\/p>\n<p>Oxebridge VP commented on the irony of the incident:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apparently Texas Tax Credit didn&#8217;t assess the risks of using a\u00a0third party logo without permission to falsely claim certification to a standard that one can&#8217;t be certified to, while doing so on the very same page it discusses its &#8220;risk management principles&#8221;, &#8220;in-depth industry knowledge&#8221; and &#8220;highest levels of quality assurance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Representatives from Texas Tax Credit did not reply regarding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>No further investigation is warranted, and JAS-ANZ appears satisfied with the swift actions taken by ICL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas R&#038;D Tax Credit Solutions, an accounting and corporate tax firm, improperly claimed its risk management system was certified to ISO 31000 by registrar International Certifications Ltd (ICL). ICL disputed the claim, forcing the tax firm to remove the statement.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[410,411,186,266],"class_list":["post-6143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-icl","tag-international-certifications-ltd","tag-iso-31000","tag-jas-anz","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6143\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}