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IRS agrees that payments from VA work therapy program are not includible in income.(Department of Veterans Affairs)

The IRS has acquiesced to the decision in Wallace, 128 TC No. 11 (2007), in which the Tax Court held that payments to veterans made by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for work performed under a VA-administered compensated work therapy program are veterans' benefits that are excluded from income. It also ruled that the payments did not have to be reported on an information return.

Background

The VA administers therapeutic and rehabilitative activities under its Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) program. The CWT program is authorized under 38 USC Section 1718 (Section 1718). It provides therapeutic work opportunities to veterans who are otherwise unable to work and ...

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