August
‘Nerds gone wild’: Inside PwC’s last party before it all blew up
It is the days-long party now described as the last hurrah before the storm of the tax leaks. Within six months, the scandal would change the firm forever.
- Edmund Tadros
April
Luke Sayers is done with the PwC scandal. It’s not done with him
Unethical behaviour “ignored”. “Implausible”. “Scarcely credible”. How can this assessment be any worse?
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
March
PwC cover-up of tax leaks scandal ‘worsens the crime’: report
A Senate committee said PwC Australia had yet to demonstrate that it has reformed its operations “beyond superficial commitments to change”.
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- Edmund Tadros
Senators slam PwC Australia’s ‘zombie management team’
Senators will call PwC International operatives before parliament to personally explain why the company is withholding a report into overseas aspects of the firm’s tax leaks scandal.
- Edmund Tadros
PwC and the ‘asbestos mulch’ still scoring government contracts
Despite being subjected to a full-scale government review, PwC recently won a fat audit contract with the NBN.
- Mark Di Stefano
February
Releasing international tax leak report unfair, dangerous: PwC
PwC Australia believes authorities have the evidence they require to conduct their own investigations into the actions of overseas partners involved in the tax leaks scandal.
- Edmund Tadros
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Inside the big four’s private Zoom conclave
The Business Council of Australia convened the executives from the major professional services firm for some feedback on the past 12 months.
- Mark Di Stefano
Offshore tax leaks went beyond the ‘dirty six’, Senate told
The Tax Practitioners Board investigation is now targeting international partners who shared leaked emails.
- Neil Chenoweth
Police probe into PwC tax leaks goes international
The AFP investigation into the PwC tax leaks scandal has extended to the force making overseas inquiries, a Senate estimates hearing has been told.
- Edmund Tadros
PwC CEO wants power to strip ex-partners of $140k-a-year payments
PwC Australia CEO Kevin Burrowes is seeking the power to strip former partners of retirement payments if they are found to have done the wrong thing.
- Edmund Tadros
Tax office row over PwC leaks investigation flares in Senate
Senior ATO official Jeremy Hirschhorn says moves to prevent Tax Practitioners Board CEO Michael O’Neill getting a position “didn’t happen”. Mr O’Neill points to changes in his contract.
- Neil Chenoweth
October 2023
Tax Office mixed up documents in PwC penalty case
ATO’s list of “false and misleading documents” in legal professional privilege claims included company logos.
- Neil Chenoweth
August 2023
- Analysis
- Commonwealth Games
PwC scandal casts secrecy shadow over Commonwealth Games inquiry
Witnesses before an inquiry into Victoria cancelling the Commonwealth Games were quick to explain why they had to remain silent.
- Patrick Durkin
July 2023
PwC tax leaks ‘deeply disturbing’, says rival EY
EY Oceania boss David Larocca said he had spent five months talking to clients about why his firm is not like PwC, but was criticised at a Senate inquiry for failing disclose partner pay details.
- Edmund Tadros
March 2022
NDIS spending blows out by $40b, set to overtake defence
Spending on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has blown out by $40 billion over the forward estimates and will overtake spending on defence in 2024-25.
- Andrew Tillett
February 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Morrison fights to keep his balance
The Prime Minister is determined to wedge Labor without wedging himself on religious discrimination – but there are plenty of tripwires in this last sitting before the election.
- Jennifer Hewett
Not all deaths with COVID are because of COVID: PM
The government was on the defensive over the aged care COVID-19 crisis when Parliament resumed.
- Phillip Coorey
‘Time for action’ to lift aged care wages: Baird
Former NSW premier Mike Baird’s comments come as data shows more than a third of total virus-related deaths in aged care have happened in the first month of 2022.
- Finbar O'Mallon
Third doses set to be required for full vaccination
The expert immunisation panel on vaccinations will hand its latest advice to the federal government within weeks.
- Tom McIlroy
January 2022
- Opinion
- Federal election
Scott Morrison is a collision between image and reality
The Prime Minister relies on a series of carefully crafted images. But when they get blurred, there is no core message to fall back upon.
- Laura Tingle