The PwC tax scandal: Should private consultants be trusted?
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The Role of Private Consultants in Government Decisions
Those with long careers in the public service retain a certain suspicion or cynicism about the use of private consultants. If you have this ever-increasing dependency upon private consultants, you have a loss of accountability and commercial incompetence is frequently invoked. The PwC scandal is a very explicit and severe example of conflicted interest but there are broader examples of conflict of interest inherent in sometimes awkward partnerships between the public sector and private.
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