Texas National Guard troops with Operation Lone Star could owe hundreds or thousands in back taxes after the state’s military department acknowledged it withheld too little in federal taxes from service members’ paychecks since October 2021.
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The department did not answer specific questions from The Texas Tribune and Army Times about the overall cost of the error to Operation Lone Star personnel. Abbott’s office did not respond to a request for comment. One Air National Guard member who left the mission in May said he’d never heard of the withholding shortfall when reached by the Tribune and Army Times. But he did complain that the state still hasn’t paid his $1,100 travel voucher reimbursing his final trip home.
“[We] basically got told it’s on the individual soldier to figure it out and that's moreso what the frustrating part was,” the service member said. “Because that’s the typical answer that we’ve gotten from the Texas Army National Guard, like ‘hey, we need help’ and they basically just say, ‘well, you just are going to have to figure it out.’”
“When commanders can fix an administrative problem but choose not to, such avoidance can approach dereliction of duty,” Rodriguez, who retired in 2009 after nearly four years as the Texas Guard’s top general, told the Tribune and Army Times in an email. “When they cannot fix the problem soon or at all, then transparency and offered assistance are what they owe their soldiers.”
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