MISSING PERSONS ACT

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88TH CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
1st Session No. 411
JUNE 18, 1963.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. RIVERS of South Carolina, from. the Committee on Armed Serv-
ices, submitted the following
REPORT
The Committee on Armed Services, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 2989) to further amend the Missing Persons Act to cover
certain persons detained in foreign countries against their will, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon with amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
The amendments are as follows:
On page 1, strike out lines 8 and 9, and on page 2, strike out lines
1 and 2, and insert in lieu thereof the following:
"(1) a member of the uniformed services as defined in sec-
tion 101(3) and (23) of title 37, United States Code;" and".
On page 4, strike out lines 4, 5, and 6, and substitute in lieu thereof
the following:
"in section 101(3) and (23) of title 37, United States
Code; or".
The purpose of the proposed legislation is to clarify existing law
so as to improve the administration of the Missing Persons Act. At
present, the benefits of the Missing Persons Act are provided for
persons within the scope of the act who are "officially determined to
be absent in a status of missing, missing in action, interned in a
foreign country, captured by a hostile force, or besieged by a hostile
force." All of these terms, with the exception of the word "missing"
standing alone and possibly "interned in a foreign country" were
originally predicated upon a declared war and if treated literally,
would imply a condition of declared war.
The proposed amendments to the Missing Persons Act would add
the words "detained in a foreign country against his will" and would
thus provide specific coverage in cold war situation for military and
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civilian personnel employed by he Federal Government who are in
this situation. To assist further in an orderly and equitable adminis-
tration of the act, the amcndlnartts reestablish the former policy of
deferment of Federal income tai: reporting and payment during the
period such uersonnel are in a missing status.
The need for clarifying legislation to perfect the administration of
the Missing Persons Act is illustrated by the cases of the two RB--47
pilots shot down by the Soviets over the Barents Sea on July 1, 1960.
(',apt. John R. McKone and Capt. Freeman B. Olmstead were released
on Jan nar.v 2h, 1961 without having been tried. The carrying of
Captain aMcKone and Captain Olmstead, the RI3-47 pilots, in a
"rnissing" -tatus during their absence, the only terra of existing law
that had literal application to their situation, when for all practical
purposes their whereabouts were known, provided an administrative
anontoly for the Air Force. In addition, had Captain McKone and
Captain Olmstead been tried and forced to serve 10-year sentences,
administration under the present terminology of the law would be
strained.
Section 1.1 of the Missing Persons Act would also be amended to
provide for the filing and payment of income tax on the 15th day of
the 3d month after termination of the "missing" status or after an
executor, adnt:inistrator, or conservator of the estate of a ntissg
person has been appointed. This provision was an integral part of
the Missing Persons Act when it was approved in 1942 and continued
in effect until December 31, 1947. It was not reestablished when the
remainder of the act was reactivated by the Selective Service Act of
1948. As in the illustration above, in it cold war situation there is
increased potential that individuals determined to be covered under
the Missing Persons Act may continue in the "missing" status for an
extended period of time. During such disability the individual is
unable to the and pay taxes on his own behalf, and under the Revenue
Code, there is no one who is responsible for filing on his behalf.
Should the normal 3-year period or filing for refund by the individual
run out dur..ng1 the period of disability, or if interest is running on
additional tax due from hint, no relief is authorized by the Revenue
{`ode. `Phe proposed provision is considered to be necessary for
orderly and equitable administration of the affairs of missing persons.
The balance of the changes are technical and merely define the
military personnel who are covered under the act in consonance with
the definition provided in title 37, United States Code 231. The
clarification will allow for common application of the present defini-
tions and obviate the need for future amendments to meet changes in
military personnel designations.
Enactment of the proposed legislation will not result in any in-
creased cost for the Department of Defense.
The Contrnittee on Armed Services unanimously recommends en-
acttrtent of the proposed legislation.
Enactment of the proposed legislation is recommended by the
Department of Defense, and the Bureau of the Budget interposes no
objection, as indicated by the followitit; letter from the Secretary of the
Air Force hereby made it part of this report.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE,
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY,
Washington, January 8, 1963.
Hon. JOHN W. MCCORMACK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
DEAR MR. SPEAKER: There is forwarded herewith a draft of legis-
lation to further amend the Missing Persons Act to cover certain
persons detained in foreign countries against their will, and for other
purposes.
This proposal is a part of the Department of Defense legislative
program for the 88th Congress and the Bureau of the Budget advises
that, from the standpoint of the administration's program, there is no
objection to the presentation of this proposal for the consideration of
the Congress. The Department of the Air Force has been designated
as the representative of the Department of Defense for this legislation.
It is recommended that this proposal be enacted by the Congress.
This proposal would specifically apply the Missing Persons Act
(MPA) (50 U.S.C. App. 1001 et seq.) to persons in the Federal service
whose accounts and affairs are determined under the act, during those
periods when a state of war does not exist. It would clarify the defini-
tion of "missing persons" by identifying, as an additional category,
those persons who are "detained in a foreign country against his (their)
will." This terminology would include any situation which would
involve persons who are separated from their organizations or inter-
rupted in their assignments by the action of a foreign power. Excep-
tions to this general rule would be cases in which an official deter-
mination of the head of the department concerned (50 U.S.C. App.
1009) would bar an individual from receipt of the benefits provided
by the act, that is, absence without authority, imprisonment by it
court having jurisdiction under status-of-forces agreements, etc. It
would also reestablish the former policy of delay in Federal income tax
reporting and payment and clarify other administrative matters
pertaining to the affairs of such individuals.
The MPA now provides, among other things, for continuation of
pay and allowances of persons "officially determined to be absent in
a status of missing, missing in action, interned in a foreign country,
captured by it hostile force, beleaguered by a hostile force, or be-
sieged by a hostile force". All of these terms, with the exception of
the word "missing" standing alone and possibly "interned in it foreign
country", if treated literally, would imply a condition of declared
war. Today it person engaged in "cold war" or other governmental
activity may be apprehended and held, or tried by it foreign power,
with a lengthy prison term to be served in the foreign country Spe-
cific coverage is recommended, therefore, for personnel who are lost
or detained under other than. wartime battle conditions.
In current administration of the act, persons are classified as
"missing" whenever the circumstances do not relate to one of the
other listed categories. Although it is believed that such classifica-
tion by the head. of the department concerned is clearly within the
intent of the act, an administrative anomaly is created thereby. For
example, the two Air Force officers who were recently released by the
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Soviets were carried in a missing status during their detention, al-
though their whereabouts was known.
These situations were evidently not foreseen when the MPA was
enacted. Our present interest is in obtaining clear authority for pro-
viding all the benefits of the MPA to those personnel who may be
detained by a foreign power. There is no increase in benefits involved.
Rather, this, is a request for clarification of what is felt to be the
original intent of the MPA with respect to coverage.
The passage of this legislation will not increase costs to the Depart-
inent of Defense since we are presently applying the MPA to persons
who are carried as "missing."
Sincerely,
Clause (1) (A) amends section 1(a) of the MPA to adopt by ref-
erence the definition of the term "member of the uniformed services",
contained in section 102 (a) and (b) of the Career Compensation Act
of 1949. This specifies the military personnel covered by the MPA
and will obviate the need for future amendments of the MPA in the
event any change is made in the definition of that term in title 37,
United States Code, Pay and Allowances of the Uniformed Services.
It, also makes a technical change to reflect the substitution of a new
clause (1) for existing clauses (1) and (2).
Clause (1) (B) is a technical amendment to reflect the redesignation
of clause (3) as clause (2), in section 1(a) of the MPA.
Clause (2) (A) is a clarifying amendment which expressly adds
the Air Force to the services 1,o which the term "active service"
applies, in section 1(b) of the MPA.
Clause (2) (B) is a technical amendment to reflect the redesignation
of clause (a) (3) as (a) (2), in clause (1) (B), above.
Clause (3) (A) amends the first sentence of section 2(a) of the MPA
by adding. as an additional category of missing persons, those who
are "detained in it foreign country against his (their) will". It
thereby provides specific authority for the application of the MPA
during periods when a state of war does not exist, and coverage
for persons who disappear, or are apprehended and held, under other
than battle conditions. It covers situations involving persons who
are separated t'roni their organizations or interrupted in their assign-
ments by the action of a foreignn force. The change removes the
administrative anomaly now occurring when the persons whose
whereabouts are known must be carried in a "missing" status because
timere is no specific category covering them. Exception to this gen-
eral rule would be cases in which an official determination of the
head of the department or agency concerned (which determination
is authorized and required by secs. 2 and 9 of the MPA) would bar
an individual from receipt of the benefits provided by the act, than is,
absence without authority, imprisonment by a court having juris-
diction under status of forces agreements, etc.
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Clause (3) (B) amends section 2(a) of the MPA by adding the
words "or employment" to specify that the expiration of a term of
employment of a civilian willnot terminate his entitlement to pay
and allowances during absence under the conditions specified.
Clause (3)(C) amends the last sentence of section 2(a) of the
MPA, relating to persons performing full-tune duty or inactive duty
training, by adding the additional category described in clause
(3) (A), above.
Clause (4) is technical in nature and amends section 5 of the MPA,
relating to departmental review of missing status, to make it respon-
sive to, and consistent with, section 2 of the MPA as expanded by
the amendment made by clause (3) (A) of the bill.
Clause (5) is technical in nature and amends section 6 of the MPA,.
relating to payment of allotments and allowances for persons in
missing status, to make it responsive to, and consistent with, section
2 of the MPA, as expanded by the amendment made by clause (3) (A)
of the bill.
Clause (6) is a technical amendment designed to delete unnecessary
language from section 7 of the MPA.
Clause (7) expressly adds the Air Force to the listing of military
services set forth in section 10 of the MPA, relating to the determina-
tion of dependency under laws providing for the payment of pay,
allowances, or other emoluments to enlisted personnel.
Clause (8) is technical in nature and amends section 12 of the
MPA, relating to the movement of dependents and household and
personal effects of persons in a missing status, to make it responsive
to, and consistent with, section 2 of the MPA as expanded by the
amendment made by clause (3) (A) of the bill.
Clause (9) restates that portion of section 13 of the MPA, relating
to income tax deferment of persons in a missing status. At present,.
in the administration of missing person cases under the Internal Rev-
enue Code, no satisfactory legal method is provided for the filing of
returns and final settlement of tax obligations. For example, in it
cold-war situation the "missing" person is unable to file and pay taxes
on his own behalf and there is no one who is responsible for filing for
him, should the normal 3-year period for filing for refund run-out
while he is under this disability or, if interest is running on additional
tax due from him, no relief is authorized by the Revenue Code. As
restated, provision is made for the filing and payment of income tax
on the 15th day of the third month after termination of the "missing"'
status, or after an executor, administrator, or conservator of the estate
of a missing person has been appointed. This provision was an integral
part of the MPA at the time it was enacted in 1942 and continued in
effect until December 31, 1947. It was not reestablished when the
remainder of the act was reactivated by the Selective Service Act of
1948. This provision is designed to facilitate the orderly and equitable
administration of the tax affairs of "missing" persons. As restated,
the section also incorporates changes of. a technical nature to make
section 13 of the MPA responsive to, and. consistent with, sections 1
and 2 of the MPA, as amended by the bill.
CHANGES IS EXISTING LAW MADE RY THE BILL, AS REPORTED
In compliance with clause 3 of Rule XTTI of the Rules of the House
of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as re-
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ported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is
enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic, existing
law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman):
50 U.S.C. App. 1001, ET SEQ.
(a) the term "person" means (1) [commissioned officer, warrant
officer, enlisted person (including persons selected under the Selective
'T'raining awl Service Act, as amended), member of the Army or Navy
Nurse Corps ('eniaie), wherever serving; (2) commissioned officer of
the Coast and Czeodetic Survey or the Public Health Service; and (3)]
It member of he uniformed service- as defined in section 101(3) and (23)
of title 37, tin,4.ed Sates Code; ant (2) Civilian officers and employees
of the departrnent,s, exclusive of part, time or intermittent employees
or native labor casually hired on an hourly or per diem basis, who are
citizens or nationals of the United States, or who are aliens who have
been admitted to the United States for permanent residence, except
that the follow_ng categories of civilian officers and employees shall be
covered only r.pon a determination by the head of the department
concerned that such status is the proximate result of employment by
the departmop; :
(i) persons who enter any status listed in section 2 of this Act
within the continental limits of the United States and
(ii) persons who enter any status listed in section 2 of this Act
who are residents at or in the vicinity of their places of employ-
ment in 1.1-ie Territories and possessions or in foreign countries
and who were not living there solely as a result of their emplo,,--
ment.
(b) the tern- "active service" means active service in the Army,
Navy, Air .Wa,ce, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the United
States, including active Federal service performed by personnel of the
retired and reserve components of these forces, the Coast and Geo-
detic Survey, the Public Health Service, and active Federal service
performed by the civilian officers and employees defined in [paragraph
(a) (3)] paragraph (a) (2) above;
Sa.c. 2. (a) Any person who is in the active service, or is perform-
ing full-time training duty, other full-time duty, or inactive duty
training and who is officially determined to be absent in a status of
missing, missing in action, interned in a foreign country, captured by
a hostile force. beleaguered by i hostile force, [or] beseiged by a
hostile force, or detained in a foreign country against his will shall, for
the period he is officially carried or determined to be in any such
status, be ertitled to receive or to have credited to his account the
same basic pay, special pay, incentive pay, basic allowance for
quarters, basic allowance for subsistence, and station per diem allow-
ances for not to exceed ninety days, to which he was entitled at the
beginning of such period of absence or may become entitled there-
after, except that the pay and allowances for a person who is per-
forming full-time training duty cr other full-time duty without pay,
or inactive duty training with or without pay, shall be that to which
lie would have been entitled if he had been performing full-time active
duty with pay, and entitlement to pay and allowances shall terminate
upon the date of receipt by the department concerned of evidence
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mined under provisions of section 5 of this Act. Such entitlement to
pay and allowances shall not terminate upon the expiration of a term
of service or employment during absence and, in case of death during
absence, shall not terminate earlier than the dates herein prescribed.
There shall be no entitlement to pay and allowances for any period
during which such person may be officially determined absent from
his post of duty without authority and lie shall be indebted to the
Government for any payments from amounts credited to his account
for such period. Persons performing full-time training duty, or in-
active duty training shall be entitled to the benefits of this section
only when such persons are officially determined to be absent in a
status of missing, missing in action, interned in a foreign country,
captured by a hostile force, beleaguered by a hostile force, [or] be-
seiged by a hostile force, or detained in a foreign country against their
will as a result of the performance of prescribed duty ordered by
competent authority.
Sic. 5. When the twelve months' period from date of commence-
ment of absence is about to expire in any case of a person [missing or
missing in action] entitled under section 2 of this Act to receive or be
credited with pay and allowances and no official report of death or of
[being a prisoner or of being interned] the circumstances of the con-
tinued absence has been received, the head of the department concerned
shall cause a full review of the ease to be made. Following such
review and when the twelve months' absence shall have expired, or
following any subsequent review of the case which shall be made
whenever warranted by information received or other circumstances,
the head of the department concerned is authorized to direct the
continuance of the person's missing status, if the person may reason-
ably be presume(], to be living, or is authorized to make a finding of
death. When a finding of death is made it shall include the date
upon which death shall be presumed to have occurred for the purposes
of termination of crediting pay and allowances, settlements of ac-
counts, and payments of death gratuities and such date shall be the
day following the day of expiration of an absence of twelve months,
or in cases in which the missing status shall have been continued as
h.ereinbefore authorized, a day to be determined by the head of the
department.
Snc. 6. When it is officially reported by the head of the department
concerned that a person missing under the conditions specified in
section 2 of this Act is alive [and in the hands of a hostile force or is
interned in a foreign country], the payments authorized by section 3
of this Act are, subject to the provisions of section 2 of this Act,
authorized to be made for a period not to extend. beyond the date
of the receipt by the head of the department concerned of evidence
that the missing person is dead or has returned to the controllable
jurisdiction of the department concerned. When a person. missing
[or missing in action] under the conditions specified in section 2 of
this Act is continued in a missing status under section 5 of this Act,
such person shall continue to be entitled to have pay and allowances
credited as provided in section 2 of this Act and payments of allot-
ments, as provided in section 3 of this Act, are authorized to be
continued, increased, or initiated.
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Sic. 7. The head of the department concerned is authorized to
direct; the pavrnent of new allo-,ments from the pay of persons in
active service (other than persons entitled under section 2 or sect:~on
L4 of this Act to receive pay am allowances) to increase or decrease
the aniourit, of any allotment heretofore or hereafter made by such
persons and to continue payment of any allotments of such person,
which mar have expired (in November 1941 and any month subse-
sequent thereto], with or without the consent of such person, subject
in all crises to termination by specific. request of such persons, whenever
in the judgment of the head of the department such action is considered
essential for tins well-being and protection of dependents of person=, in
active service.
* Ir * * * *
S":a. 10. The determination of the fact of dependency under the
provisions of this Act, the deternunation of the fact of dependency
for the purpose of payment of all six months' death gratuities as
authorized by law, and the determination of the fact of dependency
under Hie provisions of any and all other laws providing for the
payment of pair, allowances, or other emoluments to enlisted personnel
in the .1rmv. A avy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard of the
l'III ted States where such payments are contingent upon dependency,
shall be made by the head of the department concerned, or by such
subordinate as he may designate, and any such determination so made
shall be final and conclusive.
Ssc. 12. The dependents and household and personal effects of
any person in active service (without regard to pay grade) who is
officially reported as dead, injured, [missing for a period of thirty
days or more, interned in a. foreign country, or captured by a hostile
force] ab. ent for a period of thirty days or more in any status listed in
section 2 of this Act, may be moved (including packing, crating,
drayage, temporary storage, and unpacking of household and personal
effects) to the official residence of record for any such person or to the
residence of his dependent, next; of kin, or other person entitled to
receive custody of the effects it= accordance with regulations issued
by the head; of the department concerned; or, upon application by
such depende.r_t nett of kin, or other person, or upon the person's
application if injured, to such other location as may be determined
in advance or subsequently approved by the head of the department
concerned or by such person as he may designate. When the head
of the department concerned determines that an emergency exists
and that such sale would be in the best interests of the Government,
he may provide for the disposition of the motor vehicles and other
bulky items of such household and personal effects of the person
by public or private sale. Prior to any such sale, and if practicable, it
roasonabl"" effort shall be made to determine the d esires of the
interested persons. The net proceeds received from such sale shall be
transmitted to the owner or to the other persons in accordance with
regulations issued by head of the department concerned; but if there
be no such persons or if such persons or their addresses are not ascer-
tainable within one year from the date of sale, the net proceeds may be
covered into the Treasury as nuscellaneous receipts. Claims for net
proceeds whicEi are covered into the Treasury under the authority of
this seetion may be filed with the General Accounting Office by the
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rightful owners, their heirs or next of kin, or their legal representatives
at any time prior to the expriation of five years from the date the
proceeds are covered into the Treasury; and, if so filed, the General
Accounting Office shall allow or disallow the claim. When such
claim is allowed it shall be paid from the appropriation for refunding
moneys erroneously received and covered. If claims are, not filed
prior to the expiration of five years from the date the proceeds are
covered into the Treasury, they shall be barred from being acted on
by the courts or the General Accounting Office. The provisions of
this section do not amend or repeal the Federal Tort Claims Act
(60 Stat. 842-847), as amended; sections 2575, 2733, 4712, 4713, 6522,
9712, 9713, title 10, United States Code; or section 507, title 14,
United States Code. The head of the department concerned is
authorized to store the household and personal effects of the person
until such time as proper disposition can be made. The cost of such
storage and transportation, including packing, crating, drayage,
temporary storage, and unpacking of household and personal effects,
shall be charged against appropriations currently available. In lieu
of transportation authorized by this section for dependents, the head
of the department concerned may authorize the payment in money of
amounts equal to such commercial transportation costs or a monetary
allowance in lieu of transportation as authorized by law for the whole
or such part of travel for which transportation in kind is not furnished,
when such travel shall have been completed. When the person is in
an "injured" status, the movement of dependents or household and
personal effects provided for herein may be authorized only in cases
where the anticipated period of hospitalization or treatment will be
of prolonged duration. No transportation shall be authorized
pursuant to this section upon application by dependents unless a
reasonable relationship exists between the condition and circum-
stances of the dependents and the destination to which transportation
is requested. Beginning June 25, 1950, and for the purposes of this
section only, the terms "household and personal effects" and "house-
hold effects" may include, in addition to other authorized weight
allowances, not to exceed one privately owned motor vehicle, shipment
of which at Government expense is authorized in those cases where the
vehicle is located outside the continental limits of the United States
or in Alaska.
SEc. 13. Nothwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case
of any taxable year beginning after December 31, 1940, no Federal
income-tax return of, or payment of any Federal income tax by-
[(a) any individual in the military or naval forces of the United
States,]
(1) a member of the uniJ'ormed services as defined in section 101 (3)
and (23) of title 37, United States Code; or
[(b] (2) any civilian officer or employee of any [department who,
at Lite time any such return or payment would otherwise become due,
is a prisoner of war or is otherwise detained by any foreign government
with which the United States is at war, or] department;
[(c) any individual in the military or naval forces of the United
States serving on sea duty or outside the continental United States]
who, at the time any such return or payment would otherwise become
due, is absent from his duty station under the conditions specified in
section 2 of this Act, shall become due until [one] the earlier of the
following [dates, which ever is the earliest:] dates--
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[(l )] (A) the fifteenth da of the third month [following the
month] in which he [ceases) ceased (except by reason of death
or incompetency) to be [a prisoner of war, or to be detained by
any foreign government with which the United States is at war,
or to he a member of the military or naval forces of the United
States serving on sea duty or outside the continental United
States as the case may be] absent from his duty station under the
conditions specified in section 2 of this Act, unless [prior to] before
the expi_?ation of [such] that fifteenth day he again is [a prisoner
of war, or is detained by any foreign government with which the
United States is at war, or is a member of the military or naval
forces o.' the United States serving on sea duty or outside the
continental United States] absent from his duty station under the
condition's Specified is section 2 of this Act; or
[(2) December 31, 1947; or]
[(3)] (13) the fifteenth day of the third month following the
month in which an executor, administrator, or conservator of the
estate of the taxpayer is appointed.
Such due date is prescribed subject to the power of the [Commissioner
of Internal Revenue] Secretary of the Treasury or his delegate to extend
the time for filing such return or paying such tax, as in other cases,
and to assess and collect the tax as provided in sections [146, 273, and
274] 6851, 6867, and 6871 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 in
cases in Which such assessment or collection is jeopardized and in
cases of bankruptcy or receivership. [For the purpose of this section,
the term "continental United States" means the States and the Dis-
trict, of Columbia, and the terms "individual" or "rnemher" of the
military or naval forces of the United States means any person in the
Army of the United States, the United States Navy, the Marine
Corps, the Army or Navy Nurse Corps (female), the Coast Guard,
the Coast and Geodetic Survey or the Public Health Service.]
1'O11-pose of the bill
To amend time _\,l issing Person,; Act by adding the words "detained
in a foreign country against; his will" so as to provide specific coverage
in cold war situations for military and civilian personnel employed
by the Federal Government who are in this situation.
In addition, the proposed legislation would assist further in an
equitable administration of existing law by reestablishing the former
policy of deferring Federal income tax reporting and payment during
the period such personnel are in a missing status.
The bill amends existing law.
It'xplanatioa of committee anaendmnent.s
The amendments are purely technical in nature.
Fiscal data
No cost to the Government.
/oepartrnental data
The Bureau of the Budget interposes no objection, and the
Department of Defense recommends enactment.
L-'o rnIni.ttee poss,ti,un
The Committee on Arnied Services unanimously recommends
enactment.
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