PM says the increase in welfare for the most vulnerable won’t add to inflationary pressures; politicians are demanding names of other partners involved in the PwC tax leaks scandal. Follow updates here.
Labor senator Deborah O’Neill, who helped reveal the extent of the leaks, said both Seymour, who is remaining at PwC, and the former head of international tax, Peter Collins, were scapegoats for a wider problem that led the firm to use confidential Treasury information about planned tax changes to pitch for new clients.
Former PwC Australia CEO Tony Seymour with the international head of tax Peter Collins at the Senate tax avoidance inquiry in April 2015. “We can’t have just a couple of scapegoats when it’s clear that it’s a cultural problem,” Senator O’Neill said on Radio National on Tuesday, calling for PwC to disclose the
“No more obfuscation, no more hiding the people, no more blacked out identities,” she said. “Let’s get to the truth of who’s involved. And let’s see where they are.”he case showed “systemic corruption which may well go much deeper than the two PwC partners [whose roles in the scandal] have so far been exposed”.
“This scandalous breach of trust with the Australian people must be fully investigated by a government inquiry,” said Senator Pocock, who sponsored an inquiry into government consultants by the Finance and Public Administration committee, chaired by Senator Richard Colbeck.
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