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The government's Savings Working Group announced yesterday, looks to be at least as much about tax as it is about savings.

The governments preferred option for auditor regulation oversight appears to be based firmly on relying on members of the accountancy profession to give their time for such oversight for free.

The head of last year's Tax Working group has repeated an earlier call for a permanent body to focus on the integrity of the tax system.

The government is not looking at further taxes aimed at the property market, says Finance Minister Bill English.

Two Christchurch orthopaedic surgeons are to appeal in the Supreme Court against a ruling last month which found the combination of company and trust structures they used to minimise their income amounted to tax avoidance.

New Zealand's ministers again raised the issue of trans Tasman recognition of imputing/franking credits with Australian ministers last week - and came away empty handed.

The vexed question of trans-Tasman imputation credits will be on the agenda again at the end of the month when Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visits New Zealand.

The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has issued a "clarification" of its earlier stance on the GST status of novated futures contracts.

The latest chapter in the long running $3 billion Trinity tax scheme saga has ended with the High Court ruling Accent Management's claim against the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) as an abuse of process.

Finance Minister Bill English last year warned the New Zealand government might have to move more quickly on tax cuts tax "if the Australians decide to do something clever."