Posts tagged "pwc controversy"

Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones has told accountants, lawyers and other professionals they have until January 21 to respond to a raft of changes to tax agent regulation as a part of the government’s response to the PwC confidentiality breach.

A review into PwC by former Telstra boss Ziggy Switkowski found multiple shortcomings in the company arising from poor practices that went unreported for years.

Bernard Keane and Glenn Dyer argue that Qantas is the latest indicator of the rot at the soul of Australian businesses.

Proposed penalties of up to $1.1 million for individuals and $5.5 million for corporations were passed in the NSW parliament.

Any company or government that sticks with PwC is signalling its approval of sins too numerous to count, writes Bernard Keane.

There’s an invaluable lesson in the PwC tax leak scandal and that is your workforce is your brand.

Tough rules to make it harder for defrocked tax agents to find work in a tax advisory practice should pass the Senate unamended, according to an economics committee report.

The Tax Practitioners Board has been in the spotlight because of the role it played in disciplining Peter Collins, a former PwC partner, and his old firm for a breach of a confidentiality agreement.

When PwC consultants decided to share confidential government tax policy with other clients, they shredded their promises, mocked their values and landed PwC in the crosshairs of the federal police.

The power of the modern consultants, like PwC, to influence government is akin to the influence Church officials once wielded.

A company director will review the culture of embattled accounting firm PwC as the federal government works out how to deal with the consequences of the tax leak scandal.

Let’s be clear: there is nothing like a story involving a global brand, a scandal and questions about why a firm went like PwC used confidential information.