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RandyBane
Randall A. Bane (Randy), served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam Era, as an infantry medic, hospital corpsman with The United Nations Special Forces. He later served as a chaplain with the U.S. Air Force, Civil Air Patrol working with the Cadet Program. Randy grew up in a 'duffel bag,' meaning he comes from a military family. His father was an officer and war hero, serving in WW-II and Korea. He became involved working with men and women who had some form of addiction, when he was a combat medic. Many a night, he would nurse a soldier through the night keeping them from killing themselves due to drug overdose or experience a major toxic black-out while they had an assault rifle in their lap. God put him on his path early in life, even before he knew it, and that path is helping veterans overcome substance abuse, chemical addictions and (P.T.S.D.) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Randy has a B.A. in Psychology, Sociology and Theology, receiving his Masters of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Randy developed two educational libraries for The Department of Corrections in the state of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and assisted in developing an educational program for the State of Kansas. Randy has served in several substance abuse programs and as chaplain in several hospitals including intern at The University of Texas Medical Center, Houston, serving with Life-Flight and the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. He received additional training in trauma crisis with focus on P.T.S.D. at the V.A. Hospital and Veteran Centers in Kansas. Randy, under the auspices of the "ForgottenHeroes.Us" program, initiated a program called the Veterans Resource Program developing a T.V. Educational Program for Veterans, their families and their community, focusing on employment-counseling, substance abuse, domestic violence & health benefits. Randy hosts a program called Veterans Res/Delano Today on Channel 49 at 9:30 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday. You can contact Randy at (316) 263-8201, or by e-mail randy@fogottenheroes.us |
Veteran Affairs
2006-04-01 10:49:00
Veterans and their taxes...
Are ‘Armed Forces Personnel’ liable for Kansas Income Tax?
ANSWER: Kansas law imposes a tax upon the Kansas taxable income of every Kansas resident, regardless of where earned, and upon the Kansas taxable income of every nonresident where such income is derived from sources with the state. The service pay of members of the armed forces is taxable only by the state of their legal residence, regardless of where they may be stationed in the line of duty. The place of residency at the time of induction into the service is normally presumed to be the legal state of residence of service members. It remains so until they actually establish residence in another state and change their service records in recognition thereof.If you are an enlisted member, warrant office, or commissioned warrant officer and you serve in a combat zone during any part of a month, all of your military for that month is excluded from your income. You can also exclude military pay for that month included in your income. You can also exclude military pay earned while you are hospitalized as a result of a wound, disease or injury incurred in the combat zone. The exclusion of your military pay while you are hospitalized does not apply to any month that begins more than two years after the end of combat activities in that combat zone. Your hospitalization does not have to be in the combat zone.If you are a commissioned officer (other than a commissioned warrant office), you may exclude your pay according to the rules just discussed. However, the amount of your exclusions is limited to the highest rate of enlisted pay (plus imminent danger/hostile fire pay you received) for each month during any part of which you served in a combat zone or were hospitalized as a result of your service there. Individuals shall have 180 days after their return from the combat zone to file their Kansas income tax return without incurring any penalties or interest.Residents, is a resident that received income from another state and was required to pay income tax to that other state, they may be entitled to claim a tax credit against their Kansas income tax liability to avoid double taxation of that income.Non-residents stationed in Kansas due to military orders are not subject to Kansas income tax on their military pay. However, nonresident military personnel or their spouses (when filing a married filing joint return) must file a Kansas income tax return when they have income from Kansas sources. If the individual or spouse is a resident and the other is not, they have filed a joint federal return, their Kansas taxable income shall be reported and taxed on the basis of a joint non-resident Kansas return.(Material conveyed by the Kansas Income Tax Instructions For Armed Forces Personnel as found on the Kansas Department of Revenue Web site. Compliments of John M. Pullin, tax consultant of Bernard J. Gartland, P.C., a profession Law Corporation.)
