Letter: PwC Australia tax leak story got me thinking
Your report (May 13) about the leaking by PwC Australia of confidential tax proposals to clients reveals a degree of turpitude that might amount to institutional corruption, unless a valid explanation is forthcoming.
In the mid 1970s I headed the HM Treasury division responsible for preparing draft Budget packages.
One proposal was to raise car tax, which was implemented. The wife of one of my team was thinking of buying a new car but my colleague never prompted her to speed up her purchase and by the time she completed her purchase she was some hundreds of pounds worse off than had he warned her.
That standard of ethical behaviour, universal among my Treasury colleagues, appears absent from the PwC culture in Australia at least.
Malcolm Levitt
London SE13, UK
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