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One of the highlights of the new Liberal defence policy is the income tax relief plan for Canadian military personnel.

That tax break is on salaries earned while overseas. “In order to ensure that Canadian Armed Forces members are treated equally on deployment, all troops deployed on any named international operations will be exempted from paying federal income tax on their salary to the level of Lieutenant-Colonel,” the new defence policy noted. “This is in addition to the allowances awarded to compensate for hardship and risk.”

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The Chief of the Defence Staff is the authority to designate those “named operations,” according to the policy.

The initiative is retroactive to January 2017.

Word has come in from a number of family members of Canadian Forces personnel taking part in Poseidon Cutlass 17 that there was discontent that the latest pay cheques didn’t take into account the income tax relief. And there are questions whether these military personnel will qualify for the benefit.