Daniel Ziffer
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Sep
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7am · Big money, client secrets, and a silenced whistleblower: Inside the KPMG scandal · 29 Jun 2026
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For example, they also got busted for people using AI to cheat in a compulsory online exam about AI.
You know, there are issues here with companies that are trying so desperately to increase market share to fight for profit.
finite number of clients in an economy like australia that is where we're at but the pursuit of cash uh is very real in this one these are people who are paid very well but one of the things they have to do is chase more work and they have been chasing it so hard that they have not just bent but broken the rules coming up how widespread is the rot inside the big four
These are the outliers, but a lot of the ways that these businesses are set up, they're set up in a partnership structure, and that creates a lot of the problems.
So just a quick recap on PwC.
One of their top tax experts, Peter John Collins, was drafted in, along with other experts, to help the government formulate laws to try and tax multinational companies better.
Mr Collins took that information, reverse engineered a way around what he thought would be the government's laws.
PwC globally sold that plan to big tech, made millions for doing so, for selling this plan to avoid as yet unannounced taxes from the Australian government, and then gloated about it in internal emails.
They ended up with about a third of the firm that dealt with ongoing government contracts was sold for a dollar.
PwC is vastly smaller and less powerful now.
They are still not bidding for government work and the stench around them remains terrible.
KPMG is going down the same route.
And despite having three years of essentially a what to do and what not to do guide with the PwC scandal,
They've done everything the same.
The executives have grimly held on long after it was obvious that they were the problem and they would need to leave.
They've attempted to minimise the scandal.
They've attempted to rubbish the person or people who have raised it.
It's been an amazing look at just how dumb very clever people can be.
It's kind of all they could do.
I mean, they said they won't.
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