Tag: PWC

Corporation welfare

PwC tax leak scandal: Sue Cato hired by group of partners ahead of Senate hearing

Sue Cato is called in for high-profile crisis communications.

Cato has previously advised a raft of high-profile people and organisations, including Fairfax Media, once the publisher of this masthead; photographer Bill Henson, who was pilloried for his dark images of young models; and former David Jones chief executive Mark McInnes, who was accused of sexual harassment in a case that later settled.

Her firm also worked for the interests of the now-disgraced soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, with a former journalist associated with Cato’s outfit conducting counter-reporting on this masthead’s investigation of the former soldier.

Source: PwC tax leak scandal: Sue Cato hired by group of partners ahead of Senate hearing

Political Scams

Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire – Consultants

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According to analysis this week, PwC and other “big four” firms — Deloitte, EY and KPMG — have brought in about $4 billion in government contracts and paid out over $4 million in party donations over the past decade.

PwC is also the auditor for the federal police – the accountant that signs off on its finances as being legally compliant.

To rip off a bit from the Roman poet, Juvenal: Who will audit the auditors?

Source: Labor True Believers, Political Analysis and Satire | Facebook

ATO

Exxon confirms Tax Office in pursuit as it and Chevron rip $13bn dividends out of Australia – Michael West

Gorgon

Woohoo! Two of the biggest tax cheats, ExxonMobil and Chevron (auditors for both are PwC) have finally begun to pay a mite of income tax in Australia but they also ripped out more than $13bn in dividends and returns of capital last year. Michael West reports their latest financials.

Source: Exxon confirms Tax Office in pursuit as it and Chevron rip $13bn dividends out of Australia – Michael West

Corporate control

AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw and former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller set to cover-up the PwC tax dodging scandalKangaroo Court of Australia

AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw and former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller, who now works for PwC, have already had private communication about the PwC tax dodging scandal that is now being investigated by the federal police.

Kershaw and Fuller have a history of working together to cover-up government corruption, but more on that in a minute.

Source: AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw and former NSW Police Commissioner Mick Fuller set to cover-up the PwC tax dodging scandalKangaroo Court of Australia

LNP Corruption

Stuart Robert gone but questions over ‘shady deals’ remain

Will Robert try to organize a  religious book deal?

Recent testimony by John Margerison, former business partner of Stuart Robert, lends weight to questions about Robert’s financial interests while in the Morrison Government, writes Belinda Jones.

Source: Stuart Robert gone but questions over ‘shady deals’ remain

Capitalism

National Times – Panic at PwC: How a tax scandal played out behind… | Facebook

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Panic at PwC:

Those heavily redacted emails detailed how dozens of PwC operatives used confidential updates on government tax plans to drum up new clients.

Source: National Times – Panic at PwC: How a tax scandal played out behind… | Facebook

Government advisers

‘Disgraceful breach of trust’: how PwC, one of the world’s biggest accountancy firms, became mired in a tax scandal | PwC | The Guardian

Australian politicians, armed with 144 pages of internal PwC correspondence, are now pouring scorn on a company that is central to the provision of government services.

PricewaterhouseCoopers used government secrets to help clients in Australia and the US avoid tax – a scandal that has forced resignations and threatens contracts worth hundreds of millions

Source: ‘Disgraceful breach of trust’: how PwC, one of the world’s biggest accountancy firms, became mired in a tax scandal | PwC | The Guardian

ALP Government,

Pity about the corporate treason; PWC is back winning juicy government contracts – Michael West

Jim Chalmers

The spiders web of Government Accounting

PwC leaked secret tax data from its government work to foreign tax avoiders, potentially costing Australians billions. Like nothing ever happened, they are now picking up multimillion dollar public contracts again. Callum Foote reports. Three months

Source: Pity about the corporate treason; PWC is back winning juicy government contracts – Michael West

Government

The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class – CounterPunch.org

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They have become the outsourcing mandarins, consultancy companies which have served to degrade expertise in the public sector while diminishing the quality of services. Along the way, they have charged astronomical fees in giving repeatedly flawed advice. Consultants, packaged as all wise gurus, have become the great confidence tricksters.

Source: The Rise of the Consultant Governing Class – CounterPunch.org

corruption, LNP Corruption

PwC Peter Collins leak: Scandal involved up to 30 partners and staff, estimates told

Up to 30 partners and staff were involved in sharing confidential government tax policy, Senate estimates was told.

Source: PwC Peter Collins leak: Scandal involved up to 30 partners and staff, estimates told

Informed Opinion

Rex Patrick: put PwC top of blacklist for government procurement payments – Michael West

PwC

Big 4 consultancy PwC has been caught red-handed with partners leaking confidential information, obtained while advising the Federal government on combating tax avoidance, so their multinational clients could avoid tax. As the government ponders its response, Rex Patrick argues it’s time to introduce a procurement black list to deal with corporate cowboys.

Source: Rex Patrick: put PwC top of blacklist for government procurement payments – Michael West

LNP Corruption

PwC and the Robodebt Royal Commission. What’s the scam? – Michael West

PwC, Robodebt

PwC was commissioned to do a report on Robodebt in 2017 but but can’t recall if it was finalised, or not, or why. What’s the scam?

PwC is the scam. PwC was effectively paid *not* to deliver the Robodebt report; to never “finalise” it, to keep it in draft form so nobody ever had to be accountable.

This was the Big4 consultancy the government used to attack poor people with its big “welfare report” a year earlier now deployed in the cover it up. Highlights from the testimony of PwC partner Shane West at the Royal Commission this week:

“No … I can’t recall.” “I don’t know.” “I’m not sure”. “I don’t recall”. “I’m not sure I can say whether or not it is”. “Sorry, I can’t think of one” “This is getting beyond my area of knowledge”. The series of short videos on this Twitter feed is worth watching for sheer obfusca

Source: PwC and the Robodebt Royal Commission. What’s the scam? – Michael West