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PwC paid for senior tax officer Jeremy Hirschhorn to fly to Paris to address its global tax conference for clients and partners, at the height of the tax leaks scandal.

The Tax Office first raised its concerns related to the conduct of PwC’s tax division with Luke Sayers on August 29, 2019, when second commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn urged the firm’s then-CEO to “personally review the internal emails”.

There is no sympathy in law firm land for PwC. And why doesn’t the High Court live stream cases? It’s Hearsay.

The consultancy is facing one of the biggest crises in its history following revelations that dozens of PwC operatives used confidential updates on government tax plans to drum up new clients. This is how it happened.

PwC are experts at minimisation, so there’s no irony when they also prefer this as their PR strategy.

An accountant providing advice on tax policy has been deregistered for “egregious” misbehaviour as the government battles fallout from the PwC leaks scandal.

For several years PwC’s clients seemed to have almost prescient knowledge of the government’s plans to change tax laws. Now we know why.

Big four firm used confidential Treasury documents to find loopholes in new BEPS laws and pitch for new business.

Controversial Brazilian meat processing client JBS brought the Australia Big Four accounting firm the wrong kind of attention.

Around the world, governments deliver free Covid tests so news that Harvey Norman and Chemist Warehouse were selling RATs did not go down well