drafted soldiers and sailors

[jainen]

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Filing Advice 2006-128 explains how to treat tax-exempt wages paid to drafted soldiers and sailors. Such wages must be reported as a marginal entry coded “C” (for conscription) on Line 7, Form 1040 or 1040-NR. The exclusion covers earnings up to the applicable federal minimum wage level, paid to U.S. citizens age 18 to 45 serving under conscription orders in any military, state national guard, or alternative mandatory public service program (with the exception of service in any penal institute).

Under present law there is NO applicable federal minimum wage level for conscriptee service, but that is expected to be included in a technical corrections bill when Congress reconvenes in January.

[Joe Btfsplk]

Drafted by Selective Service

I was a draft-motivated enlistee. I got $ 75.00 a month when I was a buck private. About $ 140 per month when I got up to S/Sgt. Everyone thought I joined for the big bucks they paid.

[jainen]

after that

>>a draft-motivated enlistee<<

Yeah, I know what you mean. I graduated in 1966, the year they eliminated college deferrals but before they had the lottery. My whole class went to war. We had a choice: get drafted and sent to Vietnam for two years, or enlist for four years. So I enlisted--got sent to Vietnam for two years, and still had two more years to do after that!

[ChEAr$]

You ARE old

I was a draft-motivated enlistee. I got $ 75.00 a month when I was a buck private. About $ 140 per month when I got up to S/Sgt. Everyone thought I joined for the big bucks they paid.

Back in 1960 I think when I was signing pay vouchers for a battalion, private pay was up
to 78$ per month.

Holiday ChEAr$,
Harlan Lunsford, EA n LA