The Labor senator who helped expose PwC’s tax leaks scandal has called for a clean-out of all partners and staff “actively or passively” involved.
as a tax agent for sharing secret information about the government’s tax plans with other staff at PwC. The TPB also ordered the firm to run additional training about managing conflicts of interest.were involved in a plan to exploit, for profit, information that Mr Collins had gleaned while advising the government on developing the multinational tax avoidance laws.
Mr Seymour, who was head of the firm’s tax practice at the time, denied that the information in the emails that he saw contained breaches of confidentiality, but conceded “partners who were in senior roles or remain in senior roles within our firm” had received emails related to the leaks. “But when it does occur, there needs to be a penalty and an obvious penalty is to cease to work with that company for some period of time – unless the company is able to show it was absolutely a rogue person and their procedures are right,” he said.“But at this point, the suspicion is that that’s not so, in which [for] case some period, I don’t know how long, PwC should be told they will not get contracts, at least with Treasury and probably not elsewhere.
, which Senator Pocock sits on, is already expected to dig into the details of the tax leaks scandal.
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