Australia Frustrated by PwC Refusal to Share Tax Leak Report (1)

Australia’s tax authority accused PwC of using legal distinctions between its national and global firms to shield releasing a report into the accounting firm’s leaking of confidential information.

The Australia Tax Office told a Senate hearing Friday that officials haven’t been able to get a copy of the PwC-commissioned report by international law firm Linklaters that looked into how a top tax executive shared the information with clients.

“We share the frustrations of this committee that an organization that claims to be cooperative is deliberately hiding between the difference between the local firm and an international firm,” Jeremy Hirschhorn, second ...