Tax Free Wage to Fight a War?
Has anyone come up with a good reason not to provide tax free wage to those British Forces who fight in Ops. I understand that many other countries [incl US and Australia] do not charge income tax to those who go in to battle.
The treasury recently announced that the UK would spend 'that which was required' to fight a future war in the ME. - me thinks that the tax of 40,000 UK mil personnel deployed in Gulf region should just about pay for it. Never mind the fact that most have spent some of their own hard earned dosh to deploy with the right stuff.