Well there’s a surprise. PwC International will not release the Linklaters review of international partner involvement in the PwC scandal, asserting legal privilege - the PwC protective tool of choice. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🤷🏻‍♂️
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Just to remind everyone, here are a few snippets of the internal PwC emails released by the Senate, with email addresses and signatures which clearly establish international PwC staff engaged with explicitly confidential Australian government information.

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Congratulations to Neil Chenoweth and Edmund Tadros of The Australian Financial Review on winning the 48th Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award.

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Tax Practitioners Board sets its sights on how PwC International used tax leaks to help shape OECD’s tax debate. This is a whole new level beyond the dirty six afr.com/companies/prof…

So someone was paid $2.4m in GST refunds after falsely claiming to have spent $24m in business costs . . . and someone else asked for $32.3m refund after claiming $323m in expenses. And the ATO twigged something was dodgy about the second guy.

The fog over where responsibility starts at the Tax Office. The Protego/TikTok fraud cost $2bn & 150 ATO ex or current personnel were investigated but hey, it was nobody’s fault. afr.com/companies/prof…

ATO back in the hot seat this morning at the Consultants Inquiry answering questions about their response to the Tax Practitioners Board taking action against PwC and undermining the board’s CEO Michael O’Neill.

Head of PwC tax leaks investigation Michael O'Neill has told the Senate inquiry that the Tax Office pressured him and his team to influence the outcome. This was after ATO said attempts to sack O'Neill 'didn't happen' afr.com/companies/prof…

The ATO tried five times to muzzle or dismiss Tax Practitioners Board CEO Michael O’Neill during the PwC tax leaks saga. How does that work? Arguably it suggests an obsession. afr.com/companies/fina…

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Five years before the PwC tax leaks scandal, there was an earlier Big Four consultation that prompted a wild feeding frenzy that cost billions. Decoding the machinations back then show why Treasurer Jim Chalmers picked Rob Heferen as next tax commissioner: afr.com/companies/prof…

Still can't believe that the amazing Patrick Abboud who co-hosted the Walkleys last night is my old neighbour! I think we ended up with his mattress when he went overseas (yeah, now I'm worried that he'll want it back). Patrick is always impressive.

A very long line of people contributed to this saga. The outstanding AFR newsroom; and also the many people in parliament, at the TPB, the ATO and PwC who made it possible for this story to come out. We’re in their debt.

ANZ will be tickled that when they paid Panjak & Radhika Oswal $US125.9m AND helped pay thair tax bill, it ended up helping them renovate a little $300m Swiss getaway shack Liam Walsh ICIJ Cyprus Confidential afr.com/companies/manu…

Don't mention the war. In the week after the Ukraine invasion, PwC showed a whole new side to the term 'full service clients' as they frantically moved to help Russian oligarchs sidestep pending sanctions. ICIJ CyprusConfidential afr.com/companies/prof…

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It was 'more than appropriate' at the height of the ATO-PwC dispute, for PwC to fly 2nd Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn to Paris & put him up for 2 nights at the Vendome Hotel for a speech at their conference. Apparently all Paris hotels look like this. afr.com/companies/prof…

Tax Office narrowed the tens of thousands of false claims of legal professional privilege by PwC multinational clients to just 170 documents. Incredibly, its filing system mixed up some of them afr.com/companies/prof…

The absolute last and final instalment in my living funeral, I promise. Twelve years of Rear Window in this week's episode of The Fin podcast: shorturl.at/alnuO