![]() ![]() Partners were bewildered, confused and angry about a scandal that Seymour had earlier assured the partners and the public was related to an isolated incident in 2014. Seymour told partners during the emergency meeting that six to eight PwC partners had shared the leaked Treasury information, while another 30 to 40 partners received the emails but were not aware that the information being used was confidential.īut he was adamant that, although he had been on the emails, and was the firm’s head of tax at the time, he didn’t know that the information was secret. Those heavily redacted emails detailed how dozens of PwC operatives used confidential updates on government tax plans to drum up new clients. ![]() That was the same Friday afternoon meeting where the firm’s former chief executive, Tom Seymour, dropped the bombshell revelation that he was named in a cache of internal emails made public three days earlier.įormer PwC partner Peter Collins, left, and former CEO Tom Seymour at the Senate inquiry into corporate tax avoidance in 2015. ![]() At one point during the emergency partner meeting held by PwC on May 5, a participant asked the firm’s leadership team the obvious question: was the wider partnership being lied to about the seriousness and the extent of the tax leaks scandal. ![]()
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