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PwC Australia has delayed its main mid-year partner intake, the latest sign of the growing toll the ongoing tax leaks scandal is taking on its operations.

New figures from the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office has revealed the state government spent $671 million on consultants over the last five years.

A Senate committee is investigating the integrity of major consultancy firms which secure federal government contracts worth billions of dollars every year.

Pinning responsibility onto a big organisation is complex. And government has to look at its own role in the controversies over consultants.

Treasury officials have been accused of being asleep at the wheel on breaches of confidential government information. Officials...

Deborah ONeill told Daily Mail Australia the scandal is one that impacts every single Australian, regardless of whether theyve ever had any link to PwC.

Tough rules to make it harder for defrocked tax agents to find work in a tax advisory practice should pass the Senate unamended.

Between them, the four men had more than 75 years experience in Australian taxation law, and could have been each earning upwards of $1million per year while employed with the firm.

Murray-Darling Basin Authority seeks assurances that confidential information has not been compromised

Consultancy firms and federal government department heads face a grilling on their integrity practices by a Senate committee...