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PwC facing calls to clarify what it knew about confidental tax information leak

Employee at Irish office of Big Four accountancy firm was in contact with a former partner in Australian office who has now been banned from acting as a tax agent

Pearse Doherty: Sinn Féin’s finance spokesman has called on PwC to say whether it was aware that Peter-John Collins was banned. Picture: Fergal Phillips

PwC’s Irish office is facing calls to clarify whether it knew about the purpose of communications between one of its employees and a former partner at the firm’s Australian unit, as the fallout over the firm’s leaking of confidential tax information intensifies.

Pearse Doherty, Sinn Féin’s finance spokesman, has called on the Big Four accountancy firm to say whether it was aware that Peter-John Collins, who has been banned from practising as a tax agent ...