A former PricewaterhouseCoopers client who is suing the accounting firm over the $88 million sale of wholesale food company Hudson Pacific to Retail Food Group in 2016 has agreed to keep a Melbourne property off the market, but the company has not ruled out a bid for security for costs.
A report alleging that the ATO asked the Tax Practitioner Board to curtail its investigation of a PwC tax leaks scandal was “fundamentally misleading”, a senior tax official has said.
Executives from KPMG have condemned the PwC tax breach scandal as ‘disturbing’ and admitted past mistakes after the firm was rocked by an exam cheating scandal.
The Tax Practitioners Board says that PricewaterhouseCoopers ignored its request for the names of nine partners put on leave in the wake of the tax leak scandal that has rocked the firm, with the regulator saying former executive Peter Collins was not the only partner who misused confidential information.
Trial in a protracted class action against Deloitte over the collapse of construction group Hastie has been abandoned, signalling a settlement is in the works.
PricewaterhouseCoopers will put nine partners on leave and ringfence its government work in the wake of a tax policy leak scandal for which the embattled firm’s acting chief has issued an apology.
PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed former Telstra CEO Ziggy Switkowski to investigate the tax leaks scandal that has engulfed the firm.
KPMG has hit back at a shareholder class action over allegedly misleading statements made ahead of CuDeco’s collapse in 2020, placing blame on the defunct mining company, its directors and group members themselves.
A judge has blasted the lack of progress in an investor class action against accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers and asset finance lender Axsesstoday over an allegedly misleading $50 million prospectus.
A judge overseeing a security dispute in a shareholder class action against KPMG and former directors of Arrium has found that potential profits to the plaintiff law firm running the case under a group costs order is not relevant to determining the quantum of security for costs.