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The reality is that it's difficult for USCIS to track your unauthorized work. It's not possible for them to know if you've ever worked for some entity if you've never provided your SSN to that entity for payroll purpose e.g. you get paid by cash. Now whether you want to work for such entities is another matter. They also can't track your bank account activities. I think only law enforcement can do that with a court order and USCIS clearly is not law enforcement.Even if you provided your SSN and is on the payroll, it's not possible for USCIS to find out unless they see your tax records. Contrary to popular belief, USCIS doesn't have access to your IRS returns. That's how undocumented immigrants can pay their taxes for years without being deported. However, USCIS is entirely within their rights to request such tax records from you when you apply for immigration benefits e.g. OPT extension, green card. If they want your tax records, they'll request (most likely through RFE's) complete tax returns or tax transcripts, which include the amounts of your income, paid taxes and all W2's and 1099's. By comparing your stated income to those W2/1099's, it's a piece of cake to figure out if you've worked without authorization. Then you'll be in serious trouble. Some immigration applications require you to declare your past employment e.g. form G-235 (used in green card application) requires you to declare all employment in the past 5 calendar years. That's another way for them to find out unauthorized employment.Summary: they can't directly track unauthorized employment but they can request info from you that will reveal such activities if they have suspicions or if the application process requires you to. Just don't do it to avoid getting in trouble later.

The implementation of the state of Queensland’s Health Payroll system is one of the most disastrous and embarrassing IT projects in Australia’s history.Around 2007, Queensland was evaluating several vendors in a bid for a project to replace the old payroll system. In a dubious and hasty procurement process, IBM was able to undertake a “dry run” of its presentation while its competitors were not.In December 2007, IBM and the State of Queensland signed a $6 million contract to replace the old payroll system by July 2008. They grossly underestimated the complexity of of the payroll system. Without the internal requirements being agreed upon, the scope was constantly changing and finally blew up both in time and cost. IBM continued to run the project and the state government kept signing off on the change requests and the project ultimately cost $1.25 billion (200 times the original price tag!)Under time pressure, the state government deliberately reduced the rigor of testing and allowed a flawed, incomplete system to go live in 2010. It has caused endless issues and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to operate and fix. Queensland has banned IBM from working on other government projects but lost an expensive, protracted legal battle against IBM to recover its losses.But that’s not the end of IBM’s debacle in Australia. The website developed by IBM for the Australian Bureau of Statistics crashed on census night when it couldn't cope with the number of people submitting forms online. The ABS's $470 million census collection for 2016 turned into an embarrassing PR disaster that infuriated the public and politicians.“Nobody gets fired for buying IBM”, how wrong could that be!

Here's a good -- albeit biased -- summary from the San Francisco Chronicle on April 6, 2011:After two months of political wrangling, a proposed tax break for Twitter and other growing companies won approval Tuesday from a split Board of Supervisors - a vote that backers hope will revitalize the gritty neighborhoods west of downtown and keep tech firms from fleeing the city."Central Market and the Tenderloin have been burdened with high vacancies and blight for decades and ... the payroll tax exclusion is a powerful tool that will help us bring in much-needed jobs, services and retail," Mayor Ed Lee said.The proposal would exempt companies that move to or remain in the Mid-Market and Tenderloin districts from paying the payroll tax on new employees for six years. Companies still would be on the hook for the payroll tax on existing employees. San Francisco companies with payrolls higher than $250,000 are charged a 1.5 percent business tax on employee compensation.While the tax incentive would be available to any company, the focus now is on Twitter, the high-profile social-networking company that threatened to pack up its South of Market headquarters and move to the Peninsula, where there is no payroll tax.Twitter has 350 employees and plans to create more than 2,000 jobs in coming years. Company officials said they would stay in San Francisco if the tax break were approved. As a show of good faith, the company signed a letter of intent to lease office space in the vacant San Francisco Mart building on Market Street near 10th Street.The tax break could save Twitter an estimated $22 million in taxes over six years. A company spokeswoman declined comment after the supervisors' vote.City officials who helped craft the geographically focused tax exemption say it is intended to pair the goals of rejuvenating two economically struggling neighborhoods and giving companies who take a chance on those areas an enticement to stay in San Francisco. City Hall hopes to cultivate the tech industry as a core economic sector."It is a first step forward of really trying to bring back these neighborhoods and it is a first step forward for making sure that we get our economy back on track," said Board of Supervisor President David Chiu. He and Supervisor Jane Kim, who represents the affected neighborhoods, took the lead in sponsoring the legislation.The boundary of the tax-exemption zone includes Market Street from 10th Street to just east of Sixth Street and, in the Tenderloin, north to Ellis Street. A handful of properties, which some city officials expect to be easily leased, have been carved out so they won't be included in the exemption area.Tuesday's 8-3 backing at the board was the first of two votes required; final approval is expected next week. Voting with Chiu and Kim in favor were Supervisors Carmen Chu, Malia Cohen, Sean Elsbernd, Mark Farrell, Eric Mar and Scott Wiener. Opposed were Supervisors John Avalos, David Campos and Ross Mirkarimi, the three cementing the board's progressive bloc on the left.Opponents, with the city's largest public employees union and former Supervisor Chris Daly at the forefront, cast the tax incentive as a form of corporate welfare that could result in the loss of much-needed revenue to fund city services. They also warned that it could lead to the displacement of poor residents and small businesses if the intended revival of the Mid-Market and Tenderloin districts leads to higher rents."I don't believe giving an exception to our payroll tax is the way to go," Avalos said. "I believe that businesses in San Francisco and around the country should be socially responsible and part of that social responsibility is paying our taxes. ... If we're going to be allowing a company to threaten to leave, and give them a tax break so they don't leave, we're setting a really bad precedent for other companies to do the same."Other San Francisco tech companies, including Zynga and Yelp, already have approached the city about amending the business tax citywide to minimize or eliminate the financial hit that companies would take if they go public. Currently, San Francisco is the only city in the state that imposes the payroll tax on employee stock options once they're exercised. The mayor and supervisors across the city's narrow political spectrum have agreed to consider such a requested revision.Meanwhile, backers of the Mid-Market/Tenderloin tax break say the benefits shouldn't be lost in the larger debate over restructuring the city's business tax formula that will come later."We can't look at this as a corporate giveaway. The bottom line is, if we don't do this ... we will not have their payroll to tax. Companies will leave this city," Farrell said.The legislation also will require companies with payrolls of $1 million or more to enter into a community benefits agreement with the city if they want to take advantage of the tax break. The agreements, which will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis, may include such provisions as local-hire requirements, computer donations to neighborhood nonprofits and partnerships with local schools.http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/04/05/BA7R1IQM9D.DTL#ixzz1JlKISvW4