Over the past few months, a scandal of international proportions has rocked the Australian consulting arm of PwC.
ICIJ member Neil Chenoweth first broke the story in The Australian Financial Review: While the accounting giant profited off a lucrative contract advising the Australian government on new tax laws, some of its senior partners used that confidential information to court multinational companies seeking to sidestep those same laws.
This month, Neil Chenoweth sat down with us for a deep dive into his reporting, what he found and what those revelations tell us about the role consulting firms play in government work.
For more on the scandal, read/listen:
- https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/accounting-giant-pwc-is-in-crisis-mode-amid-a-growing-australian-tax-leak-scandal/
- https://www.icij.org/investigations/luxembourg-leaks/us-tech-giants-restructured-to-sidestep-australian-tax-law-following-pwc-advice/
- https://omny.fm/shows/the-fin/why-the-pwc-scandal-now-has-a-second-wind?in_playlist=podcast
