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
This bill extends the Combat-Injured Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2016 to cover members of the Coast Guard, which the original law did not fully address because the Coast Guard operates under the Department of Homeland Security (and previously the Department of Transportation) rather than the Department of Defense. It directs the relevant Secretaries to identify taxes that were improperly withheld from combat-related disability severance payments to injured Coast Guard veterans, notify those affected, and ensure such withholding does not happen going forward.
Who it affects
It would most directly affect Coast Guard veterans who received disability severance payments for combat-related injuries and had income taxes improperly withheld from those payments, as well as the federal agencies responsible for correcting and reporting those amounts.
Key points
- Applies existing tax-fairness protections for combat-injured veterans to Coast Guard members not operating under the Navy.
- Assigns responsibilities to the Secretary of Homeland Security (and the Secretary of Transportation for earlier years) alongside the Secretary of Defense.
- Requires identification and reporting of improperly withheld tax amounts within one year of enactment.
- Requires the government to ensure such amounts are not improperly withheld going forward, starting at enactment.
- The bill is currently in committee and has not been enacted.
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Supporting this bill means backing the extension of existing combat-injured veteran tax protections to Coast Guard veterans, requiring the government to identify, report, and stop improper tax withholding on their disability severance payments.
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Opposing this bill means leaving the current law unchanged, so Coast Guard veterans would not be explicitly covered by these tax-withholding correction and reporting requirements.
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