The Office of Tax Simplification, a body set up by Mr Osborne last year, has identified 47 tax reliefs that could be easily abolished.

去年奥斯本先生设立的税收简化办公室已确定47个可废除的税收减免项目。

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The Treasury will scrap 43 of the 47 tax reliefs identified as ripe for abolition by the Office for tax Simplification (OTS), a body set up by Mr Osborne last year.

英国财政部的简化税收办公室(ots)由是奥斯本去年组建的一个机构，OTS宣布将47项减免税项目中的43项废除。

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The British tax structure, with its thousand-odd reliefs and numerous tax rates, is woefully inefficient.

英国的税收结构因其中的千余种减税项目和高税率，效率严重低下。

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The pension tax reliefs that were very generous in the past have had to be removed.

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If it were combined with an assault on other tax reliefs, then it would simplify a tax system that is groaning with complexity.

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