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Treasury was asked to provide advice to government on:

  • options to reflect an appropriate distribution of rents, including when resource prices are high.
  • ensuring the regulations are fit for purpose into the future and compatible with emerging developments in the industry, such as liquefied natural gas (LNG) tolling arrangements and third party processing.
  • whether the evidence of how the regulations are applied in practice reflects an appropriate arm’s length price for gas at the taxing point, including in situations where prices and resource rents are high.
  • ensuring commercial transactions for parts of the LNG production chain are used as far as possible as a reference for establishing a gas transfer price.
  • ensuring that the regulations are neutral as far as possible between operations where the owners (or part owners) of gas process their own gas and where gas is processed by third parties.
  • options to improve transparency and reduce complexity in the way in which the rules operate.
  • any other related matters.