Office of Tax Simplification

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Justice – in the House of Commons at 3:33 pm on 20 July 2010.

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Photo of David Gauke David Gauke The Exchequer Secretary 3:33, 20 July 2010

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for welcoming these measures. The intention is that the OTS will be neither a tax-raising nor a tax-cutting body but a tax simplification body. It will make recommendations, and our approach, wherever possible, is to broaden the base and lower the rate. If, for example, there are recommendations that reliefs should be withdrawn, we anticipate that the money saved could be recycled into tax cuts elsewhere. The OTS should not be seen as anything other than revenue-neutral.