Office of Tax Simplification Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Office of Tax Simplification

David Gauke Excerpts
Tuesday 21st July 2015

(9 years, 4 months ago)

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David Gauke Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr David Gauke)
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The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has been established today on a permanent basis as an independent Office of the Treasury.

The OTS was established as a temporary Office of the Treasury in 2010 to advise the Chancellor on options for addressing existing complexity in the tax system. It will be established on a statutory basis in Finance Bill 2016, as announced at summer Budget 2015.

A new framework document setting out the structure within which the OTS will operate has been published on the OTS website today, alongside terms of reference for two upcoming reviews.

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