The Government keeps all taxes and reliefs under review to ensure that they continue to meet policy objectives and represent value for money for taxpayers.<\/p>
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In 2019, the Government comprehensively reviewed the Social Investment Tax Relief (SITR), in line with commitments made when SITR was enlarged in 2017.<\/p>
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As part of this review, the Government published a Call for Evidence in April 2019, which ran for 12 weeks.<\/p>
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