WA government claims BHP owes up to $300 million in underpaid royalties

[WA Today]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, 21st January, 2019 AM News Update [Late last year, the company paid $530 million to the Australian Tax Office to settle a matter that now appears to be ...]( [WA government claims BHP owes up to $300 million in underpaid royalties]( It's understood the dispute involves BHP's Singapore marketing hub - a subsidiary of the company wholly owned by BHP. --------------------------------------------------------------- Top stories [Paper, glass jars, fish tanks: The moment a Perth hoarder realised he had a problem]( Paul Thornberry collected anything and everything to the point his Midland home was almost uninhabitable. His hoarding problem was so bad he became suicidal. 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