If you are diagnosed with hypersomnia, your doctor can prescribe various drugs to treat it, including stimulants, antidepressants, as well as several newer medications (for example, Provigil and Xyrem).
You may have your 2015 RMD made payable directly to the charity (provided it meets the IRS definition of a qualified charity), and then designate it as a qualified charitable distribution on your tax return. You'll have satisfied your distribution requirement, and you won't have to pay income taxes on that money.
At the current time, CONUS COLA is the only taxable allowance. However, under federal law, all allowances created after 1986 are supposed to be taxable. Annual âCOLAâ goes into base pay which is taxable â COLA would be better named Annual base pay increase due to higner cost of living.