The first is for everyone to stop talking about it. The second is the renewed embrace of their peers.
While the PwC bonfire retains interest to parliamentarians and journalists, the collective shrug by the profession appears well in progress. Not least as regards tax lawyerOne of the first four partners named as having appeared on emails discussing the firm’s lead on the ATO, the scandal in effect forced him out of his job at DLA Piper, where he’d landed after moving on from PwC three years earlier.
Apparently, McNab was just angling for a big bonus, which didn’t work. But the email became a vivid suggestion of how some within PwC knew and thought nothing of Collins’ uncanny insights. Seymour, for one, received McNab’s email, but told a parliamentary hearing last month he’d barely taken it in. Alas. At least being ignored isn’t a fate likely to befall McNab now. Including at the upcoming tax summit.is Rear Window editor based in the Melbourne newsroom. A Rear Window columnist since 2017, she previously reported on financial markets and media.