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Deductions & credits

What are you specifically expecting to happen? 525 refers to an IRS publication that deals with many types of taxable and nontaxable income. Your military retirement pay would be reported on a form 1099-R, like any other retirement pay.

 

Military retirement pay. PUB 525

 If your retirement pay is based on age or length of service, it’s taxable and must be included in your income as a pension on lines 5a and 5b of Form 1040 or 1040-SR. Don’t include in your income the amount of any reduction in retirement or retainer pay to provide a survivor annuity for your spouse or children under the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan or the Survivor Benefit Plan. For a more detailed discussion of survivor annuities, see Pub. 575. Disability. If you're retired on disability, see Military and Government Disability Pensions under Sickness and Injury Benefits, later.