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Committee advances bill to stop automatic tax withholding from exempt military pay

2104174 · January 8, 2025
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Summary

The Senate Finance and Tax Committee voted to give Senate Bill 2047 a due-pass recommendation after hearing from the tax commissioner that the bill would prevent income tax from being automatically withheld from military pay that state law now exempts.

Senate Bill 2047 — which would prevent automatic state income-tax withholding from military pay exempted by the Legislature in 2023 — received a due-pass recommendation from the Senate Finance and Tax Committee.

The measure, presented to the committee by Brian Krasches, tax commissioner for the state, would create "an exception to the income tax withholding requirement, providing that tax cannot be withheld from military pay unless the service member specifically requests that tax to be…

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