Clients, in addition to Google, received confidential tax info from PwC Australia

On Wednesday, PwC Australia announced that the company had provided multiple clients other than Google with confidential information leaked from an Australian government tax briefing.

On Wednesday, PwC Australia said that a former partner at the firm in 2015 gave two clients confidential information with regards to the start date of new tax legislation targeting multinational corporations.

In July, reporters revealed one of the clients PwC Australia shared confidential information with was Google. However, the company avoided naming any clients in the report, citing confidentiality. PwC Australia said that the clients were not informed that the data was confidential.

The revelations are part of a "statement of facts" that the firm has released in response to a national scandal that was initially brought on by the discovery that a former partner had leaked private tax documents to colleagues in an effort to secure business with multinational corporations.

The 17-page paper, however, discloses a number of previously unreported disclosures by other partners, many of whom are anonymous, from government talks on subjects like the taxation of digital currencies and the "black economy."

2017 saw the disclosure to coworkers and an unnamed client of a private Treasury paper on a tax instrument of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development by a former partner.

The scandal, which was first made public by tax regulators in January and has since been fueled by a steady stream of new information, has resulted in the dismissal of 12 partners, including the chief executive, the freezing of relationships between clients in the public and private sectors, and the involvement of clients besides Google, such as Uber and Facebook.