They are exempt, yet they are free to use all of our public services, including our national health service which many choose to do as the prescription price for medicines is considerably cheaper than it is on their bases.
2007-01-30 00:06:44 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I realise council tax has nothing to do with funding the NHS by the way. But paying Council tax would be a good start!
2007-01-30 00:12:04 · update #1
SGT D... A baboon has more of an IQ than you. Are you American forces by any chance?
2007-01-30 00:15:04 · update #2
ARFSAIDSANDY.... I have it on very good authority that several civilian personnel are using the NHS here in the UK for treatment and are not paying. Also I am not talking about just healthcare but also other public services that you would understand if you lived in the UK. So clearly your answer is an uninformed one. But thanks anyway.
2007-01-30 00:27:02 · update #3
They should but it will be claimed the bases are American land. I dont see why they should be here in the first place but if they are they should be paying all taxes that we have to pay. If they use the NHS again they should pay towards it or be forced to pay for private healthcare in the UK. If they dont like it they should go home and live on a USAF base instead. Wedont have a base over there and what reason do they now have to have a base over here? Germany and Russian seem calm enough when compared to the US these days. I think all major nations should have a base in the US because there as bigger danger to world peace as anyone. It should be there as a deterrent and a far reaching outpost to the Far East.Same excuse they use but change Far East to Middle East
2007-01-30 01:48:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The Active Duty Zir Force personnel receive thier healthcare on base for free and prescriptions are free. But I do what you are talking about with the Civilians. My parents are living in the UK and my father is a US civilian working at RAF Lakenheath. There is a special healthcare plan that they can pay for that lets them go off-base to visit a british doctor. The plan is NOT cheap. My father is retired AF so the just go to the hospital on-base. US civilians that are not retired military are very low on the totem pole with the military hospitals. The basically have to wait a long time to recieve appointments in the hospital. So some of the do get on this paid plan and see british doctors. I honestly have never heard of a US civilian using the NHS. But if they do, that's absolutely wrong and those people should be required to pay everything a british citizen would have to pay for the same care. The American Forces aren't supposed to leech off the host country like that.
2007-01-30 02:07:29 · answer #2 · answered by mustangsally76 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speaking as a former U.S. military dependent, American military personnel do not pay for prescription medicines on base. Never have. We pay for food/cigarettes/alcohol and the like but not for medicines that have been prescribed by a base physician. We never paid for Dental, Eye, or Medical care either. The U.S. taxpayer picks up the bill for that.
If U.S. personnel are seeking medical attention outside of the base command then, yes, they should be liable for the local taxes. If the usage of local public services is high then the taxes should be paid at an agreed-upon standard rate by the U.S. Air Force itself to the local government and not by the individual personnel. This might already be the case and not be public knowledge.
2007-01-30 03:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by Lake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Goodness, this subject has really hit a hot spot. I am currently active duty Air Force and living in Germany. I have never been stationed in England, but I'm sure that some of the agreements with the host nations are the same around the world. When U.S. citizens are stationed over seas and have to be seen by a doctor off base most of the time it will be free to the person. But......only because of the insurance that the miltary uses. TriCare takes care of the military in the U.S. and over seas. There are times when the U.S. doctors on base don't have the right people or facilities to take care of certain medical problems. In these cases, we go to a local doctor and either pay the bill out of our own pockets and then get re-imbursed from TriCare, or we wait for the bill from the doctor and take it to TriCare and they pay it. Sometimes we have to pay a co-pay, but not always.
Most likely what you hearing from your source is that these people have gone to the doctor and are now having TriCare pay for the visit. If this is not the case, then yes, they should be paying for that tax. But remember that it is our governments that have made certain agreements about what is and isn't to be taxed.
Here in Germany there are certain things that we are taxed on and certain things that we aren't. Phone service for instance we have to pay tax on, but not for heating oil.
2007-01-30 07:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by mariposa 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any person no matter what their nationality that makes use of British benefits should pay either through national insurance, income tax or council tax. re the question about our American "special relationship" friends always claiming they won the second world war etc you only have to look at the films they are bringing out look at U571 for a start where it "states" an American captured the Enigma machine and forgets it was actually us Brits, it's not until after all the credits have rolled there is a small paragraph in the smallest writing that says actually, despite what we put up as fact on this film, the Brits did it!
2007-01-30 03:05:59 · answer #5 · answered by smartpulse 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when you're right here doing learn then you surely do not qualify as a pupil and could want to pay finished Council Tax. depending on the answer above - we are able to and do get human beings to summons and court docket or perhaps bailiff action interior of three-4 months - do imagine that the council wont have time to do it contained in the time you're right here.
2016-12-03 05:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do not know - do British Forces have to pay foreign taxes?
I think it is probably an agreement that forces do not have to pay in whatever foreign country they are in, they could be moved at a moments notice to another country so I suppose it is not realistic to expect them to pay.
Probably the prescription costs are juggled through the military budget - I do not know but it is possible.
2007-01-30 03:22:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is it with the stupid yanks such as SGT D. The only reason your trigger happy,shoot everything that moves big fat country joined in the war was because the good old US of A was terrified that if England fell then you would be next,(and you lot would have fallen quicker than a rotten tree in a hurricane).
I am sick of prats like you who think that you yanks WON the war for Europe....you joined in a war that was being fought well.
I mean, if you yanks were so capable of winning then what happened in Vietnam? And why are you so desperate for British help in the Iraq war for oil?
And YES...all properties should be liable for Council Tax.
2007-01-30 01:36:45 · answer #8 · answered by blissman 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Healthcare for members of the US armed forces is provided for free. And since the US military provides medications for free - your argument is invalid.
Sounds like this 'good authority' of yours is not as good as you think.
2007-01-30 01:15:54 · answer #9 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
American military personnel are exempt from paying other country's taxes.
2007-01-30 01:05:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋