HC Deb 26 March 1901 vol 91 c1360
MAJOR RASCH (Essex, Chelmsford)

I beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he could consider the possibility of exempting officers serving in South Africa from Income Tax on their pay.

SIR M. HICKS BEACH

It would be quite unprecedented to do this. Officers of the British Army serving abroad are by law chargeable on the pay they receive through the War Office, and have never heretofore been exempted by reason of foreign service.