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Massachusetts Does Not Tax Military Pensions
Federal military retirement is excluded from Massachusetts taxable income.
Verified August 18, 2026
What this benefit is
Federal military retirement is excluded from Massachusetts taxable income.
What it's worth: The whole of your military pension, untaxed
- The saving is your marginal state rate applied to the amount excluded, so it depends on your bracket. We do not publish a figure that would misstate it.
Who is entitled to it
- You receive military retired pay.
- Your home is in Massachusetts.
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How to claim it
Deadline: April 15, with your return- 1Claim the subtraction or deduction on your state return for the year.
- File with
- Your state revenue department, with your annual return
- Documents you will need
- form 1099 r
- Annual
- Claimed once a year.
Known gapWe publish the treatment from Department of Revenue guidance without a chapter and section. A reader wanting the statutory basis should ask the Department directly.
Sources
- authority · published policyMassachusetts Department of Revenue
Why only one source type: We publish this record to describe how the state taxes military income rather than to route a filing, so the administering department's own guidance is sufficient.
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