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Confessions of a tax simplifier
KEY POINTS
- The Office of Tax Simplification was set up in 2010.
- The first challenge was to define simplification.
- Experts from practice business HMRC and the Treasury work on projects undertaken by the OTS.
- The OTS is now on a statutory basis and has increased powers.
A short time ago I stepped down as the tax director of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS). So what did I learn in my six and a half years in the job? What went right – and wrong? It is timely to muse on those questions and develop a few lessons for my successor for HMRC for our wider stakeholder group and (confession time) for myself.
Back to basics
Most taxpayers will agree that the UK has a complex tax system. I...
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