Originally Posted by
BellEndBob
Moved from Wounded Para thread:
A Civil Servant from the lower grades. This young chap is on £350.00 per day, TAX FREE, plus amassing loads of time off when he returns.
I suspect this story has lost something in its telling.
I joined the civil service after leaving the RAF and served overseas, where I was treated for tax purposes as a UK citizen, paid by HMG in UK. Taxed as normal.
There doesn't seem to me anything particularly exceptional about the young chap's tax position.