1 Global efforts to stamp out digital tax avoidance have taken a step forward after a consultation document from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development proposed fundamental reform of taxation rights to ensure that big technology groups and other multinationals pay tax where they make sales and profits. 2 Thomas Cook’s high street travel agencies may reopen after Hays Travel agreed to acquire all 555 stores, as well as to take on up to 2,500 of the collapsed travel agent’s former staff. 3 BHP is facing a shareholder revolt after influential investors including Standard Life Aberdeen and Aviva urged the mining group to suspend membership of trade bodies whose lobbying for the fossil fuels industry was deemed inconsistent with the 2015 Paris climate change…

Source: The Times October 09, 2019 23:03 UTC