Published: August 13, 2019
Australia’s high court decides legal professional privilege does not apply to use of documents in assessing tax
The global mining giant Glencore has failed in an attempt to force the Australia Taxation Office to surrender Paradise Papers documents which it claimed would breach the secrecy of communications with its lawyers.
On Wednesday the high court unanimously ruled that legal professional privilege does not grant Glencore a right to stop use of the documents, which the tax office told the court it needed to assess the mining giant’s tax obligations.
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