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I don't know. Tax authority will try to get maximum benefit in both ways. For H-1 B holders and Green Card holders. When they leave U.S., they lost their right

I don't know. Tax authority will try to get maximum benefit in both ways. For H-1 B holders and Green Card holders. When they leave U.S., they lost their right to claim Social Security benefit and Medicaid they paid to U.S. in future. Is that fair? I know it depends on which side you are standing.

jhancock 17y ago
Its a tough call as to whether to treat H1-B and Green Card residents in this way. My personal feeling is that people that come here under such programs should be looking to make the U.S. their home and therefore start paying into the system. It clearly is a problem that we make it so difficult for them to complete the process. So should we: A - not collect those social taxes until you complete the process and then ask for years of back taxes once you become a citizen? B - not collect at all and treat them as temporary workers that we can throw out at will with no intention if letting them become citizens? C - collect the taxes and let them have it back if you leave and don't finish the process of becoming a citizen? There are other choices, but that should show their are problems with any way we choose.
- eugenejen 17y ago
  Maybe B. is the current choice. Meanwhile if those H-1Bs had joined 401k plans and had U.S. securities/properties. When they go home to India or China and found a successful business. U.S. IRS can wait for 30 years when they died and request frozen assets for unpaid estate tax for their U.S. and India/China assets. I guess when that happens, china/india will go to war against U.S. for sovereign power over taxation.
  - jhancock 17y ago
    I think by that time, China and India will be well embroiled in trying to overtax as well. Do not assume the U.S. position is unique in that somehow the water here makes our brains fuzzy. It is simply a case of position relative to others.

jhancock 17y ago

Its a tough call as to whether to treat H1-B and Green Card residents in this way. My personal feeling is that people that come here under such programs should be looking to make the U.S. their home and therefore start paying into the system. It clearly is a problem that we make it so difficult for them to complete the process. So should we: A - not collect those social taxes until you complete the process and then ask for years of back taxes once you become a citizen? B - not collect at all and treat them as temporary workers that we can throw out at will with no intention if letting them become citizens? C - collect the taxes and let them have it back if you leave and don't finish the process of becoming a citizen? There are other choices, but that should show their are problems with any way we choose.

eugenejen 17y ago
Maybe B. is the current choice. Meanwhile if those H-1Bs had joined 401k plans and had U.S. securities/properties. When they go home to India or China and found a successful business. U.S. IRS can wait for 30 years when they died and request frozen assets for unpaid estate tax for their U.S. and India/China assets. I guess when that happens, china/india will go to war against U.S. for sovereign power over taxation.
- jhancock 17y ago
  I think by that time, China and India will be well embroiled in trying to overtax as well. Do not assume the U.S. position is unique in that somehow the water here makes our brains fuzzy. It is simply a case of position relative to others.