Labor senator Deborah O’Neill has repeated a demand that PwC reveal the names of the US tech giants provided tax advice based on confidential government information obtained by a former PwC partner.
that revealed Uber and Facebook set up new company structures to sidestep Australia’s multinational tax avoidance law using PwC advice.
“Information which has come to light showing that Facebook and Uber restructured to avoid the MAAL regime, and reports of the substantial underpayment of tax, are both deeply concerning and sadly unsurprising.” “The ongoing drip-feed of information reflects PwC’s unwillingness to take full accountability for their transgressions,” Senator O’Neill said. “PwC’s tardy and begrudging responses to their own firm’s gross ethical and professional misconduct evidence a real unwillingness to engage in meaningful institutional reform.”showed Mr Collins and other unnamed PwC personnel actively shared documents related to Australian and OECD tax policy that they knew to be confidential.
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