US tax returns to India causing stir

THE TIMES OF INDIA ^ | APRIL 16, 2003 | CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA

[Black Agnes]

There is no value add. The Indians will work for pennies on the dollar. That's the point of outsourcing overseas. There is *no* job that can't be done either by workers overseas for way less money, or by importing said workers on H1B or L1 visas to this country and paying them pennies on the dollar. BOHICA American taxpayers and workers. If your job hasn't been outsourced or 'in'sourced, it will be soon.

[Beck_isright]

You mean like they'll do any day now to get back at us turning our back on the U.N.

[Beck_isright]

"Haven't you heard? Why we'll do "what we do best". Whatever that is."

Great, a nation of 280 million Homer Simpsons. Just what we need.

[Black Agnes]

Well, the China sellout didn't stop when bubba left office. They did manage to get MFN status under the current administration IIRC.

[Beck_isright]

I feel sorry for you except that you live in the Bay Area. You should move to Florida like everyone else is. Of course all the 7-11 jobs have been filled.</sarcasm off

[Beck_isright]

The only differences in China policy I've noted since the last election is this President has a "R" by his name on the ballot and the other one had a "D".

[The Duke]

I am now unemployed and this just bunrs my ass... I live in california Bay Area and all i see is Indians with pregnant wifes.... Now they have it both ways.... Civil unrest will only be a matter of time......

Somehow I can have a hard time picturing a bunch of tekkies rioting in South/Central LA.

I do lots of offshore outsourcing, and there's nothing I'd rather see than a law that forces me (along with my competitors) to hire US citizens. Until the victims come to understand that politics is simply "violence in slow motion", nothing will change.

[Cultural Jihad]

"...treasonous..." ... wrote Prof Lloyd Caroll, head of the accounting department at Manhattan Borough Community College.

LOL!

[ptomsiaresool]

Making forty thousand a year I just get bye living in a studio apartment... Like I could ever afford a house here..LOL.... To bad my dad divorced my mom and sold two prime properties to support his whore.. Everything is gone.. And he was a chief financial officer, made sure it was all gone then he conviently died of a heart attack....Last year. I am still paying for his buriel..Twenty six hundred to go and counting....LOL<>Life.

[lilylangtree]

Wow! I can hardly believe this. I'm totally wigged out. Checking with my accountant ASAP.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Here's the job future in America. Young (and not so young) people will have to receive training in skills that are not easily exportable.

You can't send the leaking plumbing in your house to India for repair. If your heat pump stops working, you won't send it overseas for repair. If you need a new transmission in your car, you won't send it to China for a rebuild.

[Black Agnes]

They'll just manufacture things so cheaply it won't pay to have them repaired. When was the last time you had a TV repaired, or VCR or tuner or....?

[Rocky]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! It's hard enough to try to keep things private when the U.S. laws are hanging over people. But to send our tax returns outside of the U.S.? No law applies to violations of privacy in this case. And, as someone else points out, identity theft will be rampant, as well as other abuses. Whoever authorized this needs to go to jail.

[Cultural Jihad]

You shouldn't sweat this at all. India has skyscrapers filled with very productive programmers and other professionals. If you call a toll free number to complain, say, about the use of foreign workers, your call may get answered in Manilla where an English-speaking, college educated professional will courteously handle your call.

[Black Agnes]

While he surreptitiously prints out 10 SS cards in your name and authorizes just as many credit cards and loans. *laugh*.

[Cultural Jihad]

As if that couldn't happen in Tokinville, Iowa.

[Black Agnes]

You can prosecute someone in Tonkinville, IA. What're you gonna do to someone in Malaysia? Whistle? Do you think you'd get international law enforcement effort on this for your piddly butt? Nope. You'd be SOL.

[Michael.SF.]

Meet your IRS: Punja Chakrabarti

[EdReform]

BTTT for later...

[george wythe]

This is disgusting, sharing my personal information with all sort of Third World countries.

Instead of waiting for the government to do anything about it, we should start the ball rolling right now.

What about a good old Freep to these accounting firms?

How many Americans will agree to have their personal information "images" sent all over the world?

If the word gets out, this will stop. The customer outrage will shame these businesses into stopping this practice.

I'm e-mailing my accountant right now: "Don't even think about outsourcing my tax return next year."