FICA (Social Security & Medicare Taxes)

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sn29181

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My company may want to transfer me to an office located in another country, which has no social security agreement with US. My employer and I have paid the FICA taxes for 7 years. But once I get transferred over there I will be paid locally. And nobody knows how long that job will last, maybe permanent.

Since I am still 3 years away from the 10 years minimal requirement for benefits after retirement, can I pay US FICA taxes by myself? I will continue to pay US income tax to keep my green card and apply for US citizenship in the future, but that's another story.

If I can, does anyone know the procedures and forms?

If I can't, and if I never work in US again, can I at least get my paid FICA taxes back?

NOTE: I have already checked the Social Security Admin web site, but most international information is related to gettting benefits from overseas not paying taxes while working overseas.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
 
You also need to check the tax and social security treaties in place between the country you are going to and the US. Eg., Australians working in the US can count the number of years of work in the US towards pension benefits. Similarly "quarters" worked in Australia can be counted towards US benefits towards Medicare (Australia has universal medicare coverage regardless of age, so that is not an issue there:)) Some countries such as India which do not have any government benefits, have treaties which allow Indian nationals to claim back FICA payments and for new employees no deduction takes place (some exceptions - I am not sure).
 
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This has been implemented. I don't know if it as a result of a law or just an executive order. But when I sign off on new employees W4s, I have to check for treaty exemptions. I do remember doing things differently for Indian and Thai nationals.
 
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