CFAdmin playing Grinch in Africa?

[Babbling Brooks]

Quoted from an e-mail posted online:

"Well, guys. I just want to add another injustice to how the CF are being treated. As you know, I am at Addis Ababa with TFAA, supporting the African Union in Sudan. This month, someone in Ottawa has decided that our mission should have the Risk Level down graded from Level 2 to Level 1 and have our danger pay reduced. In addition, with Risk level reduced, the tax exemption was gone. This is retroactive to June 2006. Well, the pay system took all the taxes owed in one shot and for my Dec pay, I owed the Feds $11000.00. This is just bloody insane. I have lost 25 lbs in the last four months and got intestinal amoebic infection twice and is constanly on Anti-biotic which leaves this metallic taste in your mouth. At any given time, 60 to 70% percent of the TFAA members are down with something. In october, all members had dystentery, amoeba infection, and one repatriated member had malaria."

Reference here: http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2006/12/scrooge-visits-cf-deployed-in-africa.html

Question: is this accurate?  Because if it is, I'm with BBS on this - making it retroactive and pulling the back taxes out of a December paycheque is monumentally stupid.

If it really is the case, I'm going to be e-mailing my MP, the MND, the Ombudsman's office, and the frickin' PMO on this.  You don't screw with deployed members, in my book.  But I don't want to go off half-cocked, so please confirm or deny if you can.

And Merry Christmas, Ladies and Gents.

 

[Sub_Guy]

Here the extension of tax relief for moderate missions message

RAAUZYUW RCCLHAV6001 3541434-UUUU--RCWEWLA RCWMCTS RCWMFYS RCWMHVS
RCWMMFS RCWMNLS RCWMNMS RCWMRGS RCWMWGS RCWMBNS RCWMHBS RCWMKES
RCWMMGA RCWMPCA RCWMPJA RCWMSKS RCWMTRS RCWMWIS RCWMYKS.
ZNR UUUUU ZOC
RIFD T NADEFCOL
RXFKI T CFSU E DET BRUNSSUM
RXFKBA T CFSU E DET RAMSTEIN
RXFEAA T CFSU E DET NAPLES
R 191839Z DEC 06
FM NDHQ DG FIN OPS OTTAWA//DAPPP/MIL PAY//
TO AIG 1760
AIG 1764
BT
UNCLAS MIL PAY 13
SIC TDY
SECTION 1 OF 2
SUBJ: SUBJ:  EXTENSION OF TAX RELIEF TO MODERATE RISK MISSIONS
REFS: A. CANFORGEN 061/04 ADMFINCS 029 231345Z APR 04
B.  AIG 1760 MIL PAY 07/05 191442Z SEP 05
C.  CANFORGEN 053/04 CDS 022 022014Z APR 04
1.  REF A HIGHLIGHTED THAT TAX RELIEF FOR NEW MISSIONS WITH A RISK
ASSESSMENT (RA) OF 3 OR 4 WOULD BE AUTOMATIC AND THAT NEW MISSIONS
WITH A LOWER RA WOULD BE CONSIDERED ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.  REF A
ALSO ANNOTATED WHICH RA LEVEL 2 MISSIONS WERE EXTENDED TAX RELIEF AT
THAT TIME. REF B EXTENDED TAX RELIEF TO ADDITIONAL RA LEVEL 2
MISSIONS
2.  ALTHOUGH TAX RELIEF MUST NOT BE EXTENDED TO RA LEVEL 2 MISSIONS
UNTIL APPROVED BY GOVERNOR-IN-COUNCIL, THE CCPS IS PROGRAMMED TO
PAGE 2 RCCLHAV6001 UNCLAS
AUTOMATICALLY ISSUE TAX RELIEF TO ALL RA LEVEL 2 MISSIONS. THEREFORE
FOR MISSIONS THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED AT RA LEVEL 2 BUT FOR WHICH
TAX RELIEF HAS NOT YET BEEN APPROVED, PAY OFFICES ARE DIRECTED TO
LIMIT RA TO LEVEL 1
3.  PENDING APPROVAL TO EXTEND THE TAX RELIEF, UNITS SHOULD NOT MAKE
ANY PAYMENT FOR THE EXTRA RA LEVEL. IF PAYMENT OF RA 2 IS NECESSARY,
THE UNIT SHOULD ADVANCE THE RA 2 AMOUNT ONLY AND CARRY THE PAY RECORD
IN THE RED.  UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE SHOULD UNITS ADVANCE PAYMENT FOR
TAX RELIEF
4.  IF RELIEF IS DENIED, UNITS ARE DIRECTED TO MAKE THE ADDITIONAL RA
2 PAYMENT BY MV CODE 62 (UNIT CREDIT).  IN SUCH CASES, A MISC PAY
NOTE WILL HAVE TO BE ADDED TO EACH AFFECTED MEMBERS RECORD
5.  IN CASES WHERE TAX RELIEF IS APPROVED, UNITS ARE TO:
A.  CANCEL THE ORIGINAL RA LEVEL 1 ENTRY AND
B.  REPUBLISH WITH LEVEL 2.  THIS WILL TRIGGER THE TAX RELIEF
6.  THIS ACTION IS REQUIRED UNTIL CCPS CAN BE REPROGRAMMED TO HAVE
TWO RA LEVEL 2 ENTRIES, ONE WITH TAX RELIEF AND ONE WITHOUT TAX
RELIEF.  DUE TO RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS, REPROGRAMMING WILL NOT BE
SCHEDULED IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE
7.  LIST OF 2006 LEVEL 2 MISSIONS
PAGE 3 RCCLHAV6001 UNCLAS
A.  APPROVED TAX RELIEF
OP JADE (GOLAN)
OP JADE (DAMASCUS)
OP JADE (ISMAILA)
OP DANACA (GOLAN HEIGHTS)
OP AUGURAL (KHARTOUM SUDAN)
OP SAFARI (KHARTOUM SUDAN)
OP BRONZE (SARAJEVO)
OP BOREAS (BIHAC)
B.  PENDING TAX RELIEF APPROVAL
OP GLADIUS (GOLAN HEIGHTS)
OP AUGURAL (ADDIS ABABA)
8.  PLEASE ENSURE THIS MESSAGE IS GIVEN THE WIDEST DISTRIBUTION
POSSIBLE.  INQUIRIES: TAX RELIEF POLICY: DPPD 5, MAJ R. FORCIER,
995-1949. ADMINISTRATION: MILITARY PAY POLICY AND PROCEDURES, CAPT D.
DEGREVE, 613-995-8398 OR PO1 MCCARTHY, 613-995-8638
9.  THIS IS A JOINT DAPPP/DPPD MESSAGE.  END OF ENGLISH TEXT/START OF
FRENCH TEXT

 

[observor 69]

http://beaconoff.blogspot.com/2006/12/merry-christmas-troops-love-ottawa.html

I picked this  link up from a Newsgroup site. Anyone got any info on this matter?

 

[Magravan]

Seems to be a theme on the board at the moment... Don't spend any money, because they aren't sure if they'll want some of it back for some reason or another

 

[Babbling Brooks]

I did some further digging on this issue, and what I found out is posted here: http://toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com/2007/01/info-on-being-dollar-short-comes-day.html

Thanks to Sub Guy for posting the pay memo - it was quite helpful.