Inside the Tax Office’s bitter feud over PwC
The Tax Office made multiple attempts to sideline or to engineer the dismissal of Michael O’Neill because of his team’s actions in investigating PwC.
A senior Tax Office official pressed to open an investigation of the Tax Practitioners Board at the height of the PwC tax leak scandal last year, citing suspected leaks to The Australian Financial Review.
The request last June for the ATO’s fraud prevention arm to investigate board officers, which was described to the Financial Review by several Tax Office sources, was said to have been declined by the fraud team.
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