PwC has complied with an order to provide additional training to more than 1300 mostly tax-related partners and staff on their professional behaviour.
PwC has complied with an order to provide additional training to more than 1300 mostly tax-related partners and staff on their professional behaviour, including the need to act with honesty, integrity and to keep client information confidential.The order was part of a punishment issued to the firm by the Tax Practitioners Board in late 2022 after it sanctioned the firm and former partner Peter Collins over the leaking of confidential government information.
The first of these reports was published by the TPB on Tuesday morning. PwC’s report states that the firm has complied with the order and has so far put 1329 personnel through a training course that reminds them about the need to act professionally and has created a centralised confidentiality agreement register.
A spokeswoman for PwC said the firm had published the report, which includes the training material used, as part of a push to “enhance the firm’s transparency and culture”., involved multiple partners from around the world using confidential government information to help US tech giants sidestep tax laws that Mr Collins was helping Treasury designThe extent of the scandal, revealed in a cache of emails obtained by Labor senator Deborah O’Neill in May, and the firm’s subsequent cover-up has led to the
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