PwC chief’s $1.2m bonus kept ‘secret for more than a year’, inquiry told

Kevin Burrowes received additional salary from the firm's international arm but did not initially reveal it to parliamentary inquiry into company

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The chief executive of PwC Australia, Kevin Burrowes, received a $1.2m payment from the consulting company's international arm which he did not initially reveal to the parliamentary inquiry into the 2015 leaking of confidential government tax reform information.

A parliamentary inquiry was told on Friday that Burrowes first told the corporations and financial services committee that he was paid an annual salary of $2.4m. That was later corrected to $2.8m.

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