From: Davide Guarisco < >
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:01:55 -0700

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>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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