Professor Judith Freedman CBE has joined the OTS board
The Chancellor has appointed Professor Judith Freedman CBE to the Board of the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS), in succession to Paul Johnson CBE.
OTS Chair, Kathryn Cearns OBE said:
Further Information
The OTS was established in 2010 to provide advice to the Chancellor on simplifying the UK tax system and was made a permanent, independent office of HM Treasury in July 2015. It was put on a statutory footing in the Finance Act 2016.
Judith Freedman is Pinsent Masons Professor of Taxation Law and Policy at Oxford University.
She was a joint founder of the Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation and contributed to the Mirrlees Review on Reforming the Tax System for the 21st Century. She is General Editor of British Tax Review, chair of the Tax Law Review Committee of the Institute of Fiscal Studies and on the Advisory Group of the Tax Administration Research Centre.
The members of the OTS Board are now:
Press enquiries only please contact Julie Gillespie, OTS Press Officer 03000 585028.