Section 298: Reserve and auxiliary forces’ training allowances
1223.This section provides that no liability to income tax arises in respect of training allowances and bounties payable out of the public revenue to members of the reserve and auxiliary forces of the Crown. The section is the second of two deriving from provisions contained in section 316 of ICTA, and derives from subsection (4) of that section.
1224.This provision was litigated in Lush (HM Inspector of Taxes) v Coles (1967) 44 TC 169, where the taxpayer was an officer in the Civil Defence Corps who received a training bounty of £15 from local authority funds. The General Commissioners upheld his appeal against an assessment under Schedule E on the grounds that the bounty fell within what is now section 316(4). But the Inspector’s appeal to the High Court was successful, because Stamp J held that a sum paid out of local authority funds could not be described as being paid “out of the public revenue”.
