you are correct, it is just a 330 day period not attached to any FY or calander year. Yea, all the service members have to do is spend 1 day of a month in a Combat Zone and they get tax-free, and hazardous duty for the month. Pretty good deal for them, but they deserve it.
here is the deal the tax break, only applies if you spend 330 days in a 365 day period out of the states. Also the tax free is only on the first 80K, It still works out pretty good, depending on where you are and what your company policyies are. You also need to factor in Perdiem which is 94 dollars a day in Kuwait + logding. some companies pay a flat rate of 10k permonth for vehicles housing and food, actual cost to live pretty comfortablyis only about 3,500 to 4,000 all perdiem is tax free also. based on my experience you could expect to clear 140,000 - 230,000 for a year.
It's not all that bad, its a lot of territory, the media focuses on the glaring horror stories. I 've been on 2 tours as a contractor in direct support of ground forces, and have been just about everywhere in the theater, Iraq and Afghanistan. My first tour was during the initial ground war, and I travelled with the troops all the way to Tikrit, 2nd tour I was based out of kuwait and travelled as required, to Falluga, Baghdad, and Afghanistan. I would definately recommend the Kuwait tour. Good network and I was able to do most work over the net.
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you are correct, it is just a 330 day period not attached to any FY or calander year. Yea, all the service members have to do is spend 1 day of a month in a Combat Zone and they get tax-free, and hazardous duty for the month. Pretty good deal for them, but they deserve it.
you could say that I have aquired a good bit of expertise in that area in the last 18 months.
here is the deal the tax break, only applies if you spend 330 days in a 365 day period out of the states. Also the tax free is only on the first 80K, It still works out pretty good, depending on where you are and what your company policyies are. You also need to factor in Perdiem which is 94 dollars a day in Kuwait + logding. some companies pay a flat rate of 10k permonth for vehicles housing and food, actual cost to live pretty comfortablyis only about 3,500 to 4,000 all perdiem is tax free also. based on my experience you could expect to clear 140,000 - 230,000 for a year.
It's not all that bad, its a lot of territory, the media focuses on the glaring horror stories. I 've been on 2 tours as a contractor in direct support of ground forces, and have been just about everywhere in the theater, Iraq and Afghanistan. My first tour was during the initial ground war, and I travelled with the troops all the way to Tikrit, 2nd tour I was based out of kuwait and travelled as required, to Falluga, Baghdad, and Afghanistan. I would definately recommend the Kuwait tour. Good network and I was able to do most work over the net.