European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes thursday March 30, 1989 ruling casts doubt on taxation Navy. N victims names of Dod o be r sea s a 11 o dances is City crash by William Washington Bureau Washington a Federal judge hns ruled that certain allowances granted to Federal employees arc not subject to social Security and medicare taxes throwing into question the withholding of millions of lax dollars collected since 19hs. The decision on the tax ability of such benefits As living quarters and temporary lodging allowances creates a possible Burt a uralic dilemma for he department of defense which for several years has been collecting Between s100 and $2,000a year from each employee overseas. Hopefully Dop will now Stop with holding for about 50,000 employees overseas said attorney Richard him. Who filed suit on behalf of 18 teacher stationed in Bermuda. But How arc the 50,000 going to get their Money Backil s a bureaucratic 1 he decision issued tuesday by . Claims court senior judge Thomas j. I Don. Entitles Only the 18 to lax refunds. It docs not order Tan refunds for any other defense employees or order the Pentagon 10 Stop the taxation. Whirl needs to be done Here is some congressional committee will have to drag these defense department people in there and say who was the Bonehead who did this and then make them give the Money Back said him whose Case was on behalf of the overseas education association but has the potential of helping All overseas military employees. Pentagon officials had no immediate comment on inc ruling. From inc Start the lax Case had a touch of irony. Neither the state depart ment nor the Justice department assesses the lax for benefits to their Over seas employees. However inc Justice department represented the Pentagon in the Case maintaining that the allowances were wages and therefore taxable. Under inc Law Lydon ruled. The allowances arc not part of salary and were not intended to be compensation for services. The allowances were reimburse ments for actual lodging costs incurred by overseas employees for the convenience of their employer the govern ment. The employee incurred the costs and then upon submission of an appropriate invoice or. Report was reimbursed for the actual costs Lydum wrote that nothing in the legislative history of the 1983 social Security amendments indicates that Congress intended reimbursements to employees for actual costs they incurred for lodging for the convenience of inc government their employer be deemed remuneration or compensation for services and thus subject to the defense department has the option to Appeal Lydon y decision to the . Court of appeals. Him said that As Long As the defense. Department continues to withhold taxes on the benefits civilians employed by the military May make refund claims for the withholding each year when filing their regular taxes. However because rulings on tax cases affect Only individual litigants any government employee seeking a refund also would have to file suit and Ine Cost of reclaiming the Money could negate if nol Cuc eed the refund. So the Over whelming majority of those taxed for the benefits will probably never Sec it again unless Dod gives it him said. Moreover he said it is Loo late for Many employees to file Complete refund claims since they Are required within two years. The Navy began collecting the taxes in 1985. And inc army and air Force started in 1987. It s too late to get it for "85 and was we did him said. For 87 and 88, that can be Cut rate promotion offered on trips to . By Norm x.e1clfr travel outdoor boiler . Defense depart ment civilians and family members lying to the United states from West Civ Many in the next six weeks can save hundreds of dollars through a special promotion by iwo . Air May 15, i an american world airways and trans world air lines Are offering the special com Panion Ian the ofter allows two people travel ing Logcher to Purchase one Lickl at the full military fare and get n 50 per cent discount on the second one. Three people travelling together pay the full military fare on two tickets and get the third one wanting the special fare must be booked on the same flights my in the tame sen ice class to told Otic Nin and round trip tickets Are Mizilar fare for .1 round trip Tii Lei Between Frankfurt and new Ork in ss46 half Price under in companion fan1 would be $213. The ofter applies Only to adult fares. Tick ets for children and infants Are Al ready issued Al a the person purchasing the ticket need apply for the military far and the companion need not be an id card Holder officials said. This Means or Dod civilian could travel Wilh a non id card Holder and still Purchase a ticket for that person at half the Cost of the military fare. The companion need nol tickets must include a return flight leaving inc United Stal Esno later than june 15 for the special companion fare offer originated Wilh i in am on feb. 23, Bulwa matched it soon thereafter. Officials at american airline and Northwest airlines said icy will not offer the companion fares. An official at Dillu air lines said was looking Al the competitive Situa lion bul had nol made a decision. The German airline. Lufthansa also Sells military fare tickets but is nol offering the companion fare. Nas Simonella Sicily Sas the Navy on wednesday released the names of the i rec sailors killed and five injured monday when their truck Over turned in of the sailors were members of naval Mobile construction in 62.cn deployment at Nas is Gonella from their Home port of Gulfport miss., it Paul Weishaupt listed inc three dead construction workers As Petty officer 2nd class demur Flannory 28, of Long Beach miss. Seaman apprentice Victor r. Rodriguez.22, of Delano Calif. And Seaman re Cruit Shane e. Thomas 18, of Houston. Seaman John a Coulter 22, of Palm Beach Fla and Seaman apprentice Jason m. Skank. 19, of Otter Luke,mich., Are being treated for multiple fractures Al Lan Stuhl army regional medical Center in West Germany to which they were taken tuesday he said. The remaining three sailors were treated and released Al the naval clinical Simonella he identified them As Petty officer 1st class Scon m. Bellamy 28. Of Virginia Beach a. Seaman apprentice Dean l. Hillyer. Iowa an Seaman apprentice Earnest jr., 25. Of Princess Anne had no information on the survivors of the dead sailors. No held in 3 rapes 2 attempts in Bavaria two people struggling. Havel said lock fled when the officers b Miller West German police in Erlanger filed charges wednesday against a . Army sergeant they say is a serial rapist guilt of at least five attacks on women m the past six months sol. Richard a. Lock was arrested tuesday during one of the attacks. He is charged with three rapes and two Al Lem pled rapes according to or Langon police. All of the victims Wen knocked of their bicycles while cling paths after dark. Lock 29, is n Mechanic assigned to the 1st army div s Ilu. Co 7th Urt 6th info Cal in Bomberg an army spokesman said. The events leading to lock s arrest began when two or Langon police Jor Nilz and Franz Sponsel noticed an 18-year-old medical student on her bicycle Aboul 1 15 . Tuesday police spokesman Dieter Havel said. The offi cers followed the cyclist but lost sight of her near a railway underpass. After spot Ting inc woman s handbag in the grass alongside a nearby bicycle path they saw flu i. Maliu a my. ii in min ii fam identified themselves. He gave himself up after icy fired three warning shots. Erlanger is about 10 Miles North of numbers and .25 Miles South of Bam had been patrolling the area after a 19-year-old was pushed from her bicycle a few hours earlier. A passing Motorist caused her attacker to flee. Lock has not been charged with the. Earlier at , he has been linked to the oct. 10 rape of a 32-year-old editorial assistant near Rcch Sundorf West of or Langen the Jan. Is rape of a 22-year-old nurse near Tenn Clohe. South of Erlanger and the feb. 10 rape of a 17-Ycar-oh nursing student Between Bamberg and 17-year-old Cut her attacker on the hip Wilh a knife before being Over powered. Lock also is suspected in the feb. 27attempted rape of a 27-year-old student in the same Vicinity As the october As Sault and of tuesday s assault. He confessed to the five assaults Havel said. Ngo gets life in prison for murdering Girlfriend i Al i
