The bill reduces federal taxes on military retirees, disability/combat-related payments, and survivor benefits—boosting income for veterans and families—while modestly lowering federal revenue and creating potential unequal tax treatment for some non‑Armed Forces uniformed service retirees.
Veterans and retired service members will pay less federal income tax because military retired/retainer pay and certain disability or combat-related payments are excluded from gross income.
Survivors and families receiving payments tied to a service member's death will retain more of those benefits because such payments are excluded from federal income tax.
Federal income tax revenue will be reduced because a portion of retiree and survivor payments is excluded from taxable income, which could slightly increase deficits or reduce funding availability for other programs.
Some non‑Armed Forces uniformed service retirees may receive different tax treatment than Armed Forces retirees due to a narrower special‑rule scope, creating potential unfairness and added complexity in tax planning.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Excludes a wider set of military retirement, retainer, disability, combat-related, and survivor payments from taxable gross income. It updates the Internal Revenue Code and related statutory cross-references, repeals an obsolete military pay provision, preserves a narrow prior special rule for certain uniformed services retirement reductions, and applies to tax years beginning after enactment. The change reduces federal income tax liability for many veterans, retired service members, certain surviving family members, and some uniformed-service retirees by making specific pay and benefit types tax-exempt going forward.
Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude all military retirement and related benefits from Federal income tax.
Introduced November 20, 2025 by Abraham J. Hamadeh · Last progress November 20, 2025
Excludes additional military retired/retainer pay, disability, combat-related, and survivor payments from gross income under the tax code.