CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
339 Points
Joined September 2007
When any partner signs the tax audit report of the entity, whose audit is conducted by some other partner of the firm, the principal of agency comes int picture. But no where in law, it is mentioned that each partner should sign 45 tax audits. Only the words undertake, conduct and accept has been used.
Further the assignment is being taken up by the Firm and not the individual partners, so any partner can sign on behalf of the firm.
So in my opinion any single partner can sign more than 45 audits on behalf of other partners of the firm