PAC reports on Big Four's role in tax avoidance

MPs have found that the Big Four are too influential in their secondments to HMRC and the Treasury, report Penny Sukhraj and Sara White

'If they [the Treasury and HMRC] were better staffed, they would not need secondments,' Bill Dodwell – senior UK accountant and head of tax policy at Deloitte has argued.

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