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(uk) Gordon Brown ambushed by soldier over tax
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Aug 30, 2009 03:52pm |
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| Category | General |
| Media | Newspaper - Daily Telegraph |
| News Date | Sunday, August 30, 2009 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | It was not the sort of ambush Gordon Brown was expecting during his trip to Afghanistan.
The Prime Minister was having lunch with a group of Welsh Guards at a British military base in Lashkar Gah and was chatting about football when Lance Corporal Dean Byfield asked if he could put a question to the Labour leader.
The 20-year-old from Valley, on Anglesey, said: "Why do we have to pay tax while we are out here?"
Paying tax on operations is a sore point amongst most British troops who feel that the reductions from their pay packets should cease when they are out of the country on operations.
The Prime Minister, and former Chancellor, replied that because the soldier was a British employee, his income was taxed back home while he was stationed overseas.
Talk turned to soldiers' pay, with the Prime Minister asking him and his comrades what they received while in theatre.
Mr Brown said: "Every year we look at these things and we look at what is happening at different grades. I hope nevertheless you have found your service here rewarding. You are doing a very important job."
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