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InsIde ThIs edITIon Community members and tenant units in U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart (plus one canine) volunteered in local German communities on Make a Difference Day. USAG Stuttgart makes a difference Page 8 Children at Patch Elementary School with deployed parents can talk about feelings and learn to cope, with help from counselors, in the Mini Troopers Club. PES club helps kids deal with deployment Page 7 Vol. 39, No. 21 U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart November 4, 2010 See UTAP on page 4  Panthers  dominate home-  coming events  [Far left] Marshal Haas (#10), right, quarterback for the Patch High  School varsity football team, dodges a tackle by a Wiesbaden player during the Panthers’ homecoming game Oct. 16 on Husky Field. Patch won 14-2.  [Left] Patch High School cross country runner Logan Sullivan makes his way through the trails behind Patch  Barracks in the 5K homecoming race against ve schools Oct. 16. The men’s team placed rst overall. For more coverage, see pages 10-11. Sa v e hundreds in ut il it ies V A T with UT AP USAG Stuttgart FMWR Financial Management Division S tuttgart military community members receiving utilities through EnBW (Energie Baden-Württemberg AG) no longer need to pay the 19 percent V alue Added Tax and 11 percent energy tax on their electric bills, now that EnBW has agreed to participate in the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart Utility Tax Avoid- ance Program. Those who buy gas or water from EnBW can also save the 19 percent VAT, along with an additional seven  percent on energy taxes and the seven  percent VA T assessed on water. “UTAP can save customers hun- dreds of dollars annually off their  utilities,” said Stacy Perez, chief of the EnBW customers in USAG Stuttgart now eligible for program USAG Stuttgart Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Financial Man- agement Division. “Now that EnBW has signed the UT AP agreements with Stuttgart, the UTAP office can make tax-free utilities available to almost everyone in the Stuttgart area.” EnBW is the most recent company to join a list of 13 other local utility companies participating in the UTAP  program, including Suewag and Sin- delfingen. The UTAP program is designed for service members assigned to Europe, U.S. civilians working for the U.S. Forces, and some contractors, provided that they fall under the Technical Expert Status Accreditation agreement. The utility costs that qualify for the Photos by Joseph Mancy  Kenneth Throckmorton, left, a USAG  Stuttgart community member, completes  paperwork to avoid paying the 19 percent VAT on his utilities in the Utility Tax  Avoidance  Program Ofce Oct. 26, with the help of  Pat Donerson, UTAP Ofce clerk. Brittany Carlson

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