, which was also released on Wednesday, blamed the tax leaks matter on PwC Australia’s “shadow” culture that tolerated bad behaviour in the pursuit of profit “growth at all costs”, and a lack of governance that “went unexamined and uncorrected for many years”.The firm’s version of events, drawn from the legal reports, stated Mr McNab emailed at least one multinational : “January 2016 remains likely with Treasury pushing for October passage through Parliament to law.
It says that shortly after the Tax Office obtained emails in October 2017 which showed that Mr Collins had breached confidentiality, PwC’s risk team noted an email Mr Collins sent on September 17, 2015, about a meeting with the Board of Taxation about hybrids. On August 29, 2019, Second Commissioner Jeremy Hirschhorn in a spirited exchange with the firm’s CEO, Luke Sayers, advised him to “personally review the internal emails”. Mr Sayers has said he has no recollection of this.Minutes of PwC’s governance board meeting on September 3 state that Mr Sayers outlined matters raised with him by the ATO the previous week.
The memo said Mr Collins again confirmed he was not required to sign a confidentiality agreement for either meeting.There the trail runs cold. The legal teams could find no evidence of any other investigation of the emails issue, or follow up with the ATO to confirm they were looking at the right emails.
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