General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6154
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 1634
Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Introduced by:
REP. REYNOLDS, 42nd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 6154
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 1634
Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Introduced by:
REP. REYNOLDS, 42nd Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES COLLECTING FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE PENSIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That title 12 of the general statutes be amended to provide that (1) any resident who was employed by the federal government and receives a federal civil service pension, whose pension is based in part upon service time in the armed forces, may deduct from his or her Connecticut adjusted gross income fifty per cent of the pension income attributed to service time in the armed forces, and (2) any such resident may apply for a state income tax refund for any income year commencing on or after January 1, 2008.
Statement of Purpose:
To extend the tax exemption for military retirement pay to former federal employees whose federal civil service pension is based in part on their service in the armed forces.