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Control of the Dugway labora-
tory has been transferred from the
Army Test and Evaluation Com-
mand to the Research, Develop-
ment and Engineering Command,
Spoehr said. This also eliminates
the lab’s mission of producing bio-
logical agents for export.
“So that production mission will
no longer be conducted at Dugway
Proving Ground, it will be done
at other laboratories within the
New Horizons'
Computer Learning Centers
located in Bldg. 13, next to the III
Corps and Fort Hood Headquar-
ters on Support Ave. Tax assistance
and filing is done by appointment
only. For more information on
the Fort Hood Tax Center or to
schedule an appointment, call 288-
7995.
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drop-off service. Taxpayers can
come into the center, provide the
staff with their tax information and
have the center prepare the return.
Once the return is ready, the tax-
payer returns to sign and the cen-
ter’s staff will submit it to the IRS.
The Fort Hood Tax center is
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Spc. Threcia Loeak works with Tax Center customers following the grand open-
ing Tuesday. All Tax Center Soldiers undergo extensive IRS training, including
courses on international taxes and ACA requirements, in order to become
certified tax preparers.
Photos by Nick Conner, Sentinel News Editor
Spc. Brittany Merritt, one of 44 IRS certified tax preparers, assist Thomas and
Tilly Bell with their 2015 taxes following the grand opening of the Fort Hood
Tax Center Tuesday. For the last ten years, the Bells said they have filed their
income tax returns for free with the center.
ACA requirements affect them and
if they qualify for any exemptions.
In January, DFAS began provid-
ing Soldiers and Army civilians
with IRS Form 1095 C and IRS
Form 1095 B for retirees. The IRS
Form 1095 series lets taxpayers
know what information is pro-
vided to the IRS regarding their
healthcare coverage during the tax
year. Taxpayers need this informa-
tion to complete their federal tax
returns.
Almost all Tricare coverage
plans, including Prime, Standard
and Tricare for Life, meet the
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technical review, harmonization
of procedures and integrate the
inspections for this program. The
Army Surgeon General Office has
been named the executive agent.
“We will establish a standing
DoD biological safety review
panel, consisting of prominent sci-
entists from both within and out-
side of the Department of Defense,
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minimum essential coverage
requirements under the ACA. A
full list of Tricare plans that meet
ACA requirements can be found
online at www.tricare.mil/About/
MEC. aspx?sc-database=web.
Molinelli also wants to remind
taxpayers that if they want to use
direct deposit or electronic debit to
receive refunds or pay taxes, they
will need to bring their account
number, their bank’s routing num-
ber and the account type.
For those filing their taxes using
IRS Form 1040 EZ, the Fort
Hood Tax Center now offers a free
Navy and Air Force members will
be available online through cus-
tomer myPay accounts beginning
Jan. 24. Hard copy W2 forms will
be mailed out via the U.S. Post
Office Sunday-Jan. 29.
Service members can also
expect to find new information
on Affordable Care Act reporting
requirements through their myPay
accounts.
Signed into law by President
Obama in 2010, Fort Hood tax
officials say that this year, taxpay-
ers will need to show the govern-
ment that they took part in a
health insurance plan that carried
the minimum essential coverage as
outlined in the ACA.
“The idea is that everyone,
whether you’re a Soldier or not, has
to have minimum essential cover-
age throughout the entire year,”
Molinelli said, “and if you don’t,
you can be assessed a tax. For the
vast majority of Soldiers and their
Family members, it’s not some-
thing they’re going to have to lose
any sleep over because the majority
of programs under Tricare qualify
for minimum essential coverage.”
Molinelli said new Soldiers,
especially those who joined within
the last year, are encouraged to
come into the Tax Center to speak
with the tax experts to see how
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And, there will be one DoD
inspection program teamed with
the Centers for Disease Control
rather than the eight teams previ-
ously.
“The totality of all these deci-
sions will greatly improve the
safety in this critically important
program for both U.S. government
workers and the American public,”
the general said.
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and monitor all requests and trans-
fers,” Spoehr said.
This, he added, includes a new
information technology system not
tied to the Dugway lab.
“We have - and are - in the
process of developing new DoD
procedures for the inactivation and
testing of bacillus athracis, which,
when the underlying scientific
research is completed ... will serve
as our single DoD and Centers for
Disease Control validated proce-
and validate procedures for work-
ing with biological select agents
and toxins,” Spoehr said.
DoD will also put in place a
process to screen and validate all
requests for biological products
from outside DoD to see if they
are valid and to see if a less-dan-
gerous product can be substituted
for what has been requested, the
general said.
The department also will put
in place a central process “to track
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