Research and analysis

Length of legislation

A 2012 analysis of the length of tax legislation.

• From: Office of Tax Simplification
• Published: 8 April 2012

Documents

Length of legislation paper

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Details

The OTS analysis shows that though there are over 17,000 pages in Tolley’s tax handbooks, the real figure for effective, unduplicated primary legislation was 6,102 pages in 2012.

Published 8 April 2012