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Reserve Forces: Income Tax

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to extend the Scottish Income Tax Mitigation scheme to reservists.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
7 Apr 2025
Target answer date
22 Apr 2025
Answer
23 Apr 2025 · 16 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 7 Apr 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to extend the Scottish Income Tax Mitigation scheme to reservists.

  2. 22 Apr 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 Apr 2025

    Answer published

    Only Regular Service personnel who are Scottish taxpayers are eligible to receive a payment under the terms of the Scottish Income Tax Mitigation scheme. This reflects the fact that Regular Service personnel cannot choose where they serve and so cannot ch...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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