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Tax dodging ruins Britain
THAT accountancy firm PriceWaterhouseCoopers (now trendily rebranded as PwC) helped clients to avoid tax “on an industrial scale” comes as no surprise.
As news, it ranks alongside ursine toiletry habits and the religious affiliation of Roman pontiffs.
Even so, the report of the public accounts committee detailing some of PwC’s dubious if not illegal practices is to be welcomed.
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