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#2 - To all ALPA Chairmen & Regional Vice Presidents

February 27, 1950

on the deductibility of pilots' uniforms.  The settling of this disputed issue alone will mean thousands of dollars of savings to the nation's air line pilots.

In order to pass along the experience of Council #1 in the income tax field, we attach hereto copies of certain correspondence between Headquarters and Mr. H. G. Thompson.  These letters are self-explanatory and should serve to give each council an idea of how the Income Tax Committee functions and enable them to give consideration to the establishment of such a committee in their own council.  Once these committees have been established, Headquarters will serve as a clearing house for income tax information, as it relates to problems common to the air line piloting profession.

Also attached hereto, please find a brief summarization of those items which are deductible by an air line pilot as a result of expenses incurred by the pilot and which are treated as a necessary and ordinary expense incident to his profession.  This letter is part of an effort to institute a broad program in each council which will serve to clarify the understanding of the pilots as to income tax problems common to the profession, and which will establish a procedure for working with the local Internal Revenue people to inculcate in them a better understanding of the problems common to the air line piloting profession.


Sincerely yours,

AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION

David L. Behncke, President

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With kind regards, I am