Greens say Labor has agreed to stop senior executives or partners at firms from becoming board members of Tax Practitioners Board
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Partners at big four consultancy firms could soon be banned from being board members of a regulator that investigates the conduct of their colleagues due to conflict of interest concerns.
The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB), which proved instrumental in uncovering the scale of a scandal involving the misuse of confidential Treasury information by a partner at PwC Australia, has the power to deregister accountants after serious misconduct.
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