If my memory is correct, and it's been a long time ago that this applied to me (1976), but it seems that if you were out of the country for 180(?) days, you did not have to pay income tax.  That was while I was in the USN on West-Pac/Indian Ocean.  But, from my memory, it applied to everyone; military and civilian.  I would contact the IRS and ask them.
Mike 

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 Neal --

I think soldiers are tax free is they are in a combat zone (i.e., receiving imminent danger pay) -- at least that's the way it was for me.

D. Jones
VCU


Dec 1, 2010 10:58:49 AM, <a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind1012A%26L%3DSAFETY%26E%3Dbase64%26P%3D49350%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252Fplain%3B%2520charset%3Dutf-8" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a> wrote:

It is not tax free for either soldier or ex-pat working as a Civi
Ray,

It is not tax free for either soldier or ex-pat working as a Civilian
Contractor.  Right now the tax shelter is for the first $85K (approx) and then
you are taxed normally on the rest of your income ... this doesn't mean your
income starts with the first dollar after the $85K ... it means your tax rate is
identiffied by your total income but is only applied to the amount you earn
beyond $85K.  Example:  Say your net is  $115K then you are taxed at a rate for
anyone making that but it is applied only to the $30K ($115 - $85).  There is a
minimmum number of days you must be off-shore for the shelter to kick in and the
full $85 is only applicable for a full year ... anything short of that is
pro0rated.   Even overseas companies must declare social security and retiain in
from your pay and is calculated on the fulll $115K.


So the answer is Yes ... you are eligbile for the tax shelter  ...  and you will
also have times when you share the sidewalk or sand path with scorpions.and a
wide variety of spiders and snakes.

I knew a guy who opened a business address  in India wiht a bank account to
match and had his payroll auto-deposited to that account.  This may be exposed
as evasion if there is no actual authentic business conducted in India but if it
is a legitimate on-going business then the income shown there is not subject to
U.S. taxes  ... it is subject to Indian.  Never learned if he went to jail or
not.  He had planned to take at least one short vacation there each year to help
throw a cover over the deception and the way India's economy has taken off  ...
he may just be doing some honest business and makning some big bucks

Another guy bought a laundramat in Thailand and hired some women to work/run the
business ... I believed he ended up marrying into the family so I'd bet he is
covered.  Thailand's dollar is worth quite a bit more than India's and not so
far off the U.S. but still a buck goes further in either of those countire than
here in CONUS..


Oss



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As an expat, is that salary tax free?

Ray Campbell

"It is important not to panic"
John Walsh
September, 2001

--- On Tue, 11/30/10, Neal K Ostler wrote:


From: Neal K Ostler
Subject: [SAFETY] Fw: Job-opportunity! HSE Manager, in Kuwait Kuwait
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Date: Tuesday, November 30, 2010, 11:07 AM


This will likely pay about $10K/month plus a beep-beep and a nice and safe place

to sleep ... but will be accompanied by a loud whining voice broadcast multiple
times during the night and day ... and more trash everywhere than you can
imagine ... a summer daytime temperatures around 125-130 F.


Oss

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