SOLDIERS' PAY
CLASSED AS INCOME A couple of financial problems lay on, the War Minister's desk await his return from his reecnt holiday. One was a protest from territorials, who had just learned that their camp pay is liable to income tax. The nmount involved is small. Camp pay is only £5 to £7 a year, and' most citizen soldiers arc in any case not earning enough in, their ordinary jobs to bring them within the tax limit. But there must be several thousands who have made a sacrifice to join the territorials, only to find that their inadequate compensation is subject to a deduction of 5s 6.5 in the £. The other plea came from regular officers, who asked for a lowering of the age at which they may marry "ori~* the strength.'' At present an officer does not get a 'marriage allowance until he is W, though hie often marries much younger. Suvv "other ranks"' have just had their njarriagc pay age reduced from 20 to 20, officers claim that the a<> lim't for them might at least be low creel to 25 to 26.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 61, 13 September 1939, Page 8
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186SOLDIERS' PAY Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 61, 13 September 1939, Page 8
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