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PwC Australia stands down staff amid tax plans leak scandal

PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia is embroiled in a scandal over the leak of confidential information about the government's tax plans [File: Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters]

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Australia has directed nine partners to stand down pending the outcome of an internal investigation amid a scandal over the leak of confidential information about the government’s tax plans.

PwC said on Monday that the chairs of the company’s governance board and risk committee would also step down and that it had begun a process to “ringfence” services provided to government agencies.

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