The "spaghetti bowl" of UK tax law is to be simplified to cut the burden on business and attract foreign investment, George Osborne has said.
"Following yesterday's Budget announcement, the next time I go to the barber in Slade Road I will ask for my hair not to be cut but to be 'simplified', " he told MPs.
He said Britain had "one of the most complex and opaque tax codes in the world" and it needed to be simplified.
Everything from the operating system to the applications to the hardware will need to be simplified before the smart home becomes a reality.
This initiative recognizes that in order to enable wide-spread adoption of these cutting-edge advances, cloud computing principles must be simplified and unified in order to amplify the benefits.
He wants the bill to be simplified, so that anyone who can prove their partner has been violent, abandoned the family home or is guilty of infidelity is automatically assumed to have a form of "psychological incapacity".
The simplified budget will be easier to track, and a person has the choice of how and where to spend his extra money.
Farmers have long called for the food supply chain, which can involve many traders and processors between farm gate and consumer plate, to be overhauled and simplified.
Under the plans, guidance on the use of force is being simplified and teachers are to be given anonymity when accused of malpractice.
Commercialising such a therapy depends on the degree to which this process can be simplified and automated.
It used to be common practice in software to offer what was called an "expert mode" that simplified interfaces and allowed users to employ shortcuts to get what they needed.
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Yet both parties profess to believe that the tax code should be simplified and the base broadened, chiefly by eliminating most loopholes.
The great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, in a classic novel called the Foundation, posited an advanced mathematical-rhetorical technology that could convert any speech to symbols, which could in turn be simplified like any other complex equation.
If Congress truly simplified the tax code, there would be little reason for special interests to donate money to candidates.
The DUP's Sammy Wilson questioned whether the government's proposed Enterprise Zones, which will deploy tax breaks and simplified planning laws to entice businesses to invest, will prove to be effective.
In simplified terms the system will be a hybrid network of satellite and terrestrial facilities tied to a ship cloud to transfer very large amounts of data and store it onboard.
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The company's Les Mureaux plant in France had a bigger role on the previous vehicle (known as Jules Verne) but with the switch to routine production, it was felt the lines of responsibility should be simplified.
In 2000, its link with the city began to be phased out and since 2002 its products have been sold under the simplified name Terry's.
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Second, the regulatory environment will be simplified by cutting out red tape when we introduce a one-stop shop for businesses to deal with regulators.
In addition to easing the exploration process with a simplified single permit for both oil and gas, the plan will be accompanied by a parallel effort to minimize local authority over energy projects.
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The government has been consulting on the possibility of simplified pay structures and new powers for shareholders - intended to restrain executive pay - that could be introduced next year.
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By reducing the discussion to a simplified fear campaign aimed at stopping the development of autonomous systems, HRW may very well be preventing the deployment of systems that can be more careful and less likely to harm civilians.
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