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tareqak ◴[] No.44469188[source]
> Foreign R&D must still be amortized over 15 years
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macinjosh ◴[] No.44469232[source]
Awesome, this literally could not be better for American tech workers.
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beebmam ◴[] No.44469263[source]
There's also H-1B (and other worker visa) restrictions/costs imposed. Overall, quite good for the American tech worker
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1. Izikiel43 ◴[] No.44469279[source]
Source?
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2. beebmam ◴[] No.44469325[source]
Extra $250 fee for visa applications: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautif...

3.5% remittance fees on sending money out of the US: https://www.globalimmigrationblog.com/2025/06/what-are-the-i...

Also (in above source), no ACA subsidies for H-1B visa holders (and others), which likely means employers they will have to pay more for health care if they want to cover their immigrant workers

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3. tareqak ◴[] No.44469379[source]
Quoting all the fees in https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautif...

> Expansion of Immigration Fees:

> $1,000 asylum application fee — first in U.S. history

> $1,000 fee for individuals paroled into the U.S.

> $3,500 fee for sponsors of unaccompanied children

> $5,000 fee for sponsors of unaccompanied children who fail to appear in court

> $550 fee for work permits

> $500 application fee for Temporary Protected Status (TPS)

> $400 fee to file a diversity immigrant visa application

> $250 fee to register for the Diversity Visa Lottery

> $250 visa integrity fee

> $100 year fee while asylum applications remain pending

> $100 fee for continuances granted in immigration court

> $5,000 fee for individuals ordered removed in absentia

> $1,500 fee to adjust status to lawful permanent resident (green card)

> $1,050 fee for inadmissibility waivers

> $900 fee to appeal a decision by an immigration judge

> $900 fee to appeal a decision by DHS

> $1,325 fee to appeal in practitioner disciplinary cases

> $900 fee to file motions to reopen or reconsider

> $600 application fee for suspension of deportation

> $600 application fee for cancellation of removal (permanent residents)

> $1,500 application fee for cancellation of removal (non-permanent residents)

> $30 fee for Form I-94 (arrival/departure record), up from $6

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4. apical_dendrite ◴[] No.44469728{3}[source]
The $100/year fee while an asylum case is pending means that the government is charging someone for the government's own inability to process cases quickly.
5. Brybry ◴[] No.44469750[source]
The House's[1] SEC. 112104. EXCISE TAX ON REMITTANCE TRANSFERS. 3.5% tax became 1% in the Senate's[2] SEC. 70604. EXCISE TAX ON CERTAIN REMITTANCE TRANSFERS and a lot of the language changed.

The Senate made a lot of changes (Byrd rule also nuked a lot of stuff) so old articles are of limited use to the final bill.

I don't even know if [2] is the actual final text as there is neither an enrolled or public law version on congress.gov yet.

It's super annoying how often we can't read the final text of a bill before Congress votes on it.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

6. unmole ◴[] No.44469775[source]
> 3.5% remittance fees on sending money out of the US:

The version of the bill that passed a 1% excise is applicable "only to any remittance transfer for which the sender provides cash, a money order, a cashier’s check, or any other similar physical instrument".

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7. zhivota ◴[] No.44472231{3}[source]
Ok thank you I was really worried for a second. Capital controls are on the bingo card but I was hoping it wouldn't come yet.