NSW Greens call for more transparency over settlement between PwC and ATO

The disclosure of the settlement between the ATO and PwC ‘raises more questions than it answers’, NSW Greens MLC Abigail Boyd says. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

The Australian Taxation Office and consultancy giant PwC Australia have reached a settlement over “false legal professional privilege claims in response to formal notices”, separate to a scandal involving the misuse of confidential government tax plans.

PwC first revealed the confidential settlement to a New South Wales parliamentary inquiry on Wednesday but did not disclose any details, leading the NSW Greens to warn the company may have secured “a sweetheart deal” with the ATO before the full scale of a scandal involving the misuse of government data was revealed.