Originally Posted by surreal1221
In the military, such things as per diem BAH, BAS, etc, are not taxed. Is per diem taxable in these situations? Or does it vary from airline to airline?
If your rest period occurs anywhere but your domicile (base) it is not taxable. If your rest period is in domicile, it is subjet to tax. If you start a 4 day trip at 12 pm monday and duty off 12 pm thursday, thats 72 hours of non-taxable perdiem.
On another note, the sad part is that for a new hire FO at (insert any regional airline here) per diem counts as a pretty good chunk on your pay check. For a single person, no dependents, 300 hrs a month perdiem equates to just under a third of take home pay.