The Tax Office goes to war with Seymour as Sayers goes big
While PwC tax divisions was mired in a paper war with the Tax Office, the firm transformed from a conservative accounting firm to hard-charging, hard-drinking financial services company.
Left, Tom Seymour and Luke Sayers before a parliamentary committee last Friday. Irene Dowdy
I even got on the pitch and went out and visited clients, which was almost bloody unheard of for a CEO,” Luke Sayers admitted.
It was 2018 and it was an unprecedented crisis. An angry Australian Taxation Office had fired the first shot in what would prove a lengthy, hot war with PwC, and it had found its mark.
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