Originally Posted by
RidinNFlyin
Also, I have a few military buddies that have told me that the more the military moves out, the more contractors there will be. Not sure how true this is.
I've heard this as well.
Originally Posted by
RidinNFlyin
Also... I have been doing my research on working in Afghanistan. So it looks like if you worked for Flight Works, you would have to pay U.S. taxes since the most you would be over seas would be 180 days in a year. Also, I am not sure if I am interpreting this correctly but it seems to me that anyone who made more than $1,846.00 would have to pay 20% Afghan tax. And damn... That really makes a big difference.
There has to be some expat pilot on here that knows more about this...
I have a friend over there, so I'll shoot him an email, but I've never heard him or my other buddy who flew there for a while mention the Afghan tax.
Also, when you're off rotation, you don't have to go back to the US. At least two of my friends took advantage of the time to travel during their months off, then got the tax break because they remained out of the country.