From: Louis Perrochon < >
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:21:37 -0700
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Taxes yes. SS not necessary. I got refunded for the first two years as I
paid by mistake, but that may have changed. Then it was the first two years
as exchange scholar on J1 were free of SS. IRS has a great Web site with all
publications.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer

Louis

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From: owner-swiss-list_at_ars.net [mailto:owner-swiss-list_at_ars.net]On
Behalf Of Davide Guarisco
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 9:02 PM
To: swiss-list_at_swiss-list.com
Subject: Re: swiss-list: US SSN and federal taxes

>
>
>I thought that when you are being paid by a US institution
>and you are under a J-1 visa you have to pay US SSN and federal taxes.
>Does anybody agree or disagree with this? My impression was
>that every post-doc, researcher, teacher, trainee,... with a J-1 visa
>has to pay taxes in the US if the source of income is coming
>directly from within the US (I am not considering income coming from
>Switzerland!). If I am wrong could anybody tell me where in current
>or past treaties or anywhere else, there is a rule saying
>that we do not have to pay US SSN and federal taxes under those
>assumptions. Thanks for your comments,

I agree. I had to pay. There may be some loopholes, though.

        Davide

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Davide Guarisco	          <http://crism.stanford.edu/~guarisco>
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