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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 823 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt servicemembers |
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| 6 | 6 | | from the income tax. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | JANUARY28, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. V |
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| 10 | 10 | | ANDREWintroduced the following bill; which was referred to the |
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| 11 | 11 | | Committee on Ways and Means |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt |
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| 14 | 14 | | servicemembers from the income tax. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Heroes’ Tax Exemp-4 |
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| 19 | 19 | | tion Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEC. 2. EXEMPTION FROM INCOME TAX FOR 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SERVICEMEMBERS. 7 |
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| 22 | 22 | | (a) I |
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| 23 | 23 | | NGENERAL.—Part III of subchapter B of chap-8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | ter 1 of subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:21 Feb 25, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H823.IH H823 |
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| 26 | 26 | | ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 |
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| 27 | 27 | | •HR 823 IH |
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| 28 | 28 | | is amended by inserting after section 139I the following 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | new section: 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | ‘‘SEC. 139J. INCOME EARNED BY SERVICEMEMBERS. 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘Gross income shall not include any amount earned 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | by an active duty member of the Armed Forces.’’. 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (b) C |
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| 34 | 34 | | LERICALAMENDMENT.—The table of sections 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | for part III of subchapter B of chapter 1 of subtitle A 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | of such Code is amended by inserting after the item relat-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ing to section 139I the following new item: 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ‘‘Sec. 139J. Income earned by servicemembers.’’. |
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| 39 | 39 | | (c) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | this section shall apply to income earned after the second 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | October 1 occurring after date of the enactment of this 12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Act. 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Æ |
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