Tax commissioner Chris Jordan and second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn were questioned by the Senate economics committee late into Tuesday night. Here is what we learnt about the timeline of the PwC tax leaks. ausbiz
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“We felt that we had, in terms of tax side, the revenue at risk, that we had fully addressed the problem by the end of 2016. We had stopped the risk to the revenue system.”AdvertisementThe ATO issued notices to acquire information from all the big four accounting firms – Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC – about their involvement in marketing of 11 types of avoidance schemes that were covered by the taxpayer alerts.
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