Public Accounts Committee criticises Big 4 secondments to government

Matthew Gilleard

April 29, 2013

The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has urged a ban on external accountants working temporarily inside government, as well as calling for tax code simplification, in its latest report Tax avoidance: The role of large accountancy firms.

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