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Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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1245 points mriguy | 6 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.649s | source | bottom
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cogman10 ◴[19 Sep 25 20:25 UTC] No.45306123[source]▶
IMO, the fee is the wrong thing that needs adjusting. It's the salary that should be adjusted. The minimum salary for an H1B should be $200k. It's something like 50k right now which is ridiculous especially with all the restrictions an applicant is under. It both suppresses wages and abuses the worker.
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1. secondcoming ◴[19 Sep 25 20:34 UTC] No.45306228[source]▶
Having a $200k minimum salary will just see outsourcing to Asia / Eastern Europe.
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2. waynesonfire ◴[19 Sep 25 20:37 UTC] No.45306261[source]▶
Why is that a problem? Thats how the program should work, to recruit talent wherever it's found.
3. MangoToupe ◴[19 Sep 25 20:38 UTC] No.45306267[source]▶
That's going to happen regardless.
4. curt15 ◴[19 Sep 25 20:47 UTC] No.45306367[source]▶
Is there a special tax on income generated by off-shore workers? That would be the software analogue of tariffs on physical imports.
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5. dmix ◴[19 Sep 25 20:52 UTC] No.45306424[source]▶
The opposite, there's a US corporate tax loophole for having operations overseas.

https://thefactcoalition.org/tariffs-manufacturing-tax-break...

6. abakker ◴[19 Sep 25 21:13 UTC] No.45306680[source]▶
it is very difficult to determine this. Companies that do h1Bs are all multinational, so they can locate dev offshore and just say they did it internally. There's also the reality that even if you go out and try to evaluate the revenue that comes from IT, you basically can't get clean attribution even if you want to. many H1Bs are not working on customer facing product, but internal projects and that makes treating things like application maintenance or service desk pretty difficult to calculate for ultimate revenue outcome.