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That is a good point about the power of the FCA, although I wonder how much of an influence they actually have on the most well off of Ferengi society. Certainly they talk a big game, and Quark is terrified when a liquidator shows up, but chances are the guy running the bar down the street from wherever you live would be pretty unnerved if the IRS (or equivalent) sent an agent to their door under similar circumstances. Would Gaila at the peak of his financial powers have found Brunt to be equally terrifying?
There's also the matter of what the FCA actually enforces. They come down pretty hard on concealing financial records, but mostly we see them show up to make sure that Quark is living up to the Ferengi ideals of being as cruel and exploitative to his customers and employees as possible. That is not an area where the most efficiently sociopathic paragons of Ferengi society are likely to run into any problems, so even if they could be prosecuted for such infractions, in practice there's nothing there to worry them.