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The new body will initially conduct two reviews - the first looking at all 400 tax reliefs, allowances and exemptions in the system to see how they can be streamlined, and the second finding ways to simplify the tax system for small businesses, including finding a simpler alternative to the controversial IR35 code.
BBC: Tax system 'to be simplified to encourage investment'
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The many adjustments to income permitted by the tax code, plus alternative tax rates on the largest sources of income of the wealthy, explain why the average federal income tax rate on the 400 richest people in America was 18.11 percent in 2008, according to the Internal Revenue Service , down from 26.38 percent when these data were first calculated in 1992.
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In the short term millions of Americans face a federal tax hike, already programmed into the tax code, from the alternative minimum tax.
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