Coast Guard Combat-Injured Tax Fairness Act
Latest action: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. (2025-04-21)
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What this bill does
The Coast Guard Combat-Injured Tax Fairness Act would ensure that Coast Guard members who were wrongly taxed on certain combat-related disability severance payments can recover that money. It aligns the tax treatment of these payments for Coast Guard members with that already provided to members of the other armed services under a prior law.
Who it affects
Current and former members of the U.S. Coast Guard who received disability severance pay for combat-related injuries and had federal income tax improperly withheld from those payments.
Key points
- Disability severance pay for combat-related injuries is generally not supposed to be taxed.
- The bill addresses cases where such payments to Coast Guard members were improperly taxed.
- It extends protections similar to those given to other military branches under earlier legislation.
- The bill is currently in committee and has not yet become law.
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