Calls for crackdown on their use by federal and state govts, including higher penalties for leaks and less hiring of external advisers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
by the Australian arm of accounting and consulting giant PwC has led to calls for a crackdown on the use of consultants by federal and state governments, including higher penalties for leaks and less hiring of external advisers.
At a parliamentary committee hearing in Canberra on Tuesday, Secretary of the Treasury Steven Kennedy, who is one of the country’s most powerful civil servants, described PwC’s conduct as “disturbing”. An MP from the ruling Labor party, Ms Deborah O’Neill, who has led efforts to expose PwC’s activities, on Tuesday called on the consultant to release the names of the suspended partners, as well as all 53 of the firm’s partners and other staff whose e-mail addresses appeared in internal e-mails about the tax leak.Ms O’Neill said PwC had tried to cover up the scandal and accused it of being “contemptuous” of the public.
According to its website, it employs 8,000 people in Australia who provide advisory and tax services to more than 5,000 clients. Labor, which defeated the coalition in an election in May last year, has pledged to scale back the use of consultants, describing them as a “shadow workforce”.
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