Bill Would Offer Tax Break to Casualties’ Families

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Air Force Times - March 29, 2006

Bill would offer tax break to casualties’ families

By Rick Maze
Times staff writer

A bipartisan bill introduced Tuesday would offer greater income tax forgiveness for service members who die as a result of injury or disease incurred in a combat zone.

The Fallen Heroes Tax Fairness Act of 2006, sponsored by Reps. Robert Ney, R-Ohio, and Michael McNulty, D-N.Y., is simply an attempt to provide the same tax exemptions for combat-related deaths that apply to civilians who die in terrorist acts, the two said in a joint statement...

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