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<p>The government is committed to having a tax system that is simple to understand
and easy to comply with. At Budget the government took a number of practical steps
to simplify the tax rules for businesses and charities which included:</p><ul><li>Extending
the option of using mileage rates to property businesses,</li><li>Ending receipt checking
on subsistence costs and</li><li>Simplifying the Gift Aid donor benefits rules for
charities.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These measures build on the action taken by the government
since 2010 to simplify the tax system including:</p><ul><li>Establishing the Office
of Tax Simplification and then putting it on a permanent, statutory basis</li><li>Implementing
around half of the OTS’s recommendations since 2010.</li></ul>
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