US wants Kenya officially declared a combat zone
US wants Kenya officially declared a combat zone to avoid taxation on her soldiers by the Kenyan government.
On Tuesday, November 15, a US politician urged President Joe Biden to formally declare Kenya a combat zone.
The “Fighting 69th” Infantry soldiers from New York who are serving in Kenya as combatants will not be subject to taxes thanks to Kenya’s designation as a fighting zone, according to Robert Smullen.
Military personnel serving abroad in designated war zones are immune from federal, state, and municipal taxes under existing tax laws in the United States.
Therefore, the Kenyan government won’t be able to tax the American soldiers stationed there if the Biden administration designates Kenya as a combat zone.
“I am calling on the Biden administration to designate Kenya as a combat zone without delay so that our nation’s heroes receive the tax benefits they are entitled to,” Smullen told the House of Representatives in the United States.
According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a “combat zone(s)” includes all hostile areas where military may serve including actual combat areas, direct combat support areas, and qualified hazardous duty areas.
The IRS is the equivalent of the Kenya Revenue Authority in America and is in charge of tax collection.
In September 2022, the United States Army National Guard sent roughly 1,000 men to the Horn of Africa in an effort to crush the terrorist organization Al Shabaab, which is affiliated with al-Qaeda.
United States Troops serving in Somalia are stationed at Manda Bay in Lamu County.
The Manda Bay base, in the Kenyan seaside resort, was overrun by 30 to 40 al-Qaida-linked insurgents on January 5, 2020, marking Al-Shabab’s first attack against U.S. forces in the East African country.
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