PricewaterhouseCoopers CEO Tom Seymour offered a wild take last week on the firm’s tax leak scandal, suggesting it was largely “a perception issue”.

Contradicting Tax Practitioners Board secretary Michael O’Neill, who told the Senate last month that 20 or 30 PwC staff were involved in the leaking of confidential government tax policy information, Seymour claimed “there [were] no findings that 30 people got the information”.