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OTS report on making tax easier through smarter use of third party data

Published on: 05 July 2021
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Article summary

The Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) has published a policy paper to set out a vision for how government could make tax easier for people through making better use of data held by third parties, such as bank interest, and the steps that would need to be taken towards making it a reality.

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

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