Tax Terms plays a key role in US job market / USIT Recruitment so in-order to have good understanding about US recruitment, every recruiter must have knowledge about the US Tax Terms.
Basically USIT Recruitment works on two key factors :
- Relationship between clients and Staffing Companies
- Relationship between USIT recruiters/Bench Recruiters and the management
There are three (3) Tax Terms which are generally used in US Job market.
| VISA |
Tax Terms |
| H1B |
C2C |
| OPT |
W2/C2C |
| Green Card |
W2/C2C |
| US Citizen |
W2/C2C |
| TN Visa |
W2/C2C |
| H4 EAD |
W2/C2C |
| GC-EAD |
W2/C2C |
For instance the person who is seeking a job opportunity with a valid work authorization (US Citizen/Green card/H1B /OPT /TN visa etc..,) is termed as consultant /Candidate.
Like wise Our staffing agency will take these Consultants on their bench according to the interest of the consultants.
If a H1B candidate is on one of the staffing company (“X” ) payroll (or made an agreement with an employer for a certain period ) then this H1B Candidate is called as W2 of this (“X” ) Staffing firm
- Only Green card /US citizen / EAD / TN Visa can work on W2 Tax Term
- H1B are not allowed to work on W2 if they are in agreement with other employer but they are allowed to work on W2 when they are going to Transfer their Visa.
- W2 Candidates will have basic benefits from the employers end like Medical , insurance ,PTO,401K
C2C:
C2C is one of the commonly used Tax Terms in the US , which is the most preferable Tax by most of the consultants
C2C is an agreement between two Corporations and under this Tax Term your company/corporation is responsible for your Taxes.
Example:
- You are an employee of company – X (So you are under payroll of company -X) but you are working for company – Y, so in that case, there will be a C2C agreement between company – X & company – Y
- Company – Y is not responsible for you taxes. Only your company (Company – X) will pay all the taxes.
- Any US Valid Visa can work on C2C basis.
1099
1099 is one of the rarely used tax terms in US job market as no one prefers to work on 1099
1099 is and independent contractor or freelancer where they are liable to pay their own taxes and files their payroll.
What are different US Tax Terms?
There are 3 types of tax terms i.e W2, 1099, C2C.
What is the difference between W2 and C2C or Corp-to-Corp?
C2C or Corp-to-Corp is an agreement between an individual ( Valid US Visa Holder ) to a corporation.
What is the 1099 Tax Term?
When a person is paid on 1099 tax terms all the money earned by the candidate is paid on untaxed bias so, the candidate is responsible to pay the tax.
Never Get confused between w2 and 1099.