[1][2] The office was created on 20 July 2010 to identify complexities in the tax system burdensome to both businesses and individual taxpayers in order to recommend their reduction.
[5] The first set of private sector secondees were Tom Byng, Caroline Turnbull-Hall, Partha Ray and Kate Cottrell, who joined Jeremy Sherwood, Tunde Ojetola and Anish Mehta.
[9] The Chancellor accepted some of the recommendations in his Budget announcement where he agreed to abolish 43 reliefs.
[14] The Office of Tax Simplification was closed by the Government of the United Kingdom in March 2023.
The decision was announced on 23 September 2022 in the Growth Plan 2022, and came into effect when the Spring 2023 Finance Bill received Royal Assent.