Ex-lawyer reveals why internal PwC probe failed to find tax leak
PwC Australia’s former senior lawyer says her initial investigation into potential breaches of confidentiality by a former partner failed to detect problems because the firm’s partners gave her inadequate evidence to look at.
Meredith Beattie, the firm’s former general counsel, told parliament she was only ever asked to review one partial email chain involving former tax partner Peter Collins in 2017 that was unrelated to the confidential advice to Treasury.
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