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The OTS has published a focus paper on tax complexity, together with updated versions of its various complexity-themed papers.
The Civil Service Leadership Academy offers a 3 part series of virtual workshops focused on leading in complexity.
A project exploring why tax is complex and how to measure complexity
A spreadsheet for measuring the relative complexity of parts of the UK tax system.
These documents set out conclusions from OTS research into ways to measure complexity in the tax system.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This framework can support evaluation of the level of model complexity for analysing climate-change impacts mediated by diseas
The Office of Tax Simplification set out lessons learned and four principles for avoiding complexity.
This is the first in a series of papers examining the future of command and control in the period from 2030 to 2040.
This paper explains how the OTS complexity index works.
Papers analysing the use of definitions for three tax acts.
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