Quick (simplified) response: If you get a US paycheck, as you already stated, you pay the US taxes (and if you live here you get an approx. $85K yearly tax break on that). If you don't make money here you don't pay taxes here (again, simplified). Your company can talk to Ernst and Young, Deloitte, all the companies that do taxes for thousands of foreigners, to confirm. You can also look at:
travel.state.gov and browse around. Or, the US, INS (confusing, some of them)federal web sites. I get a US paycheck, pay all taxes applicable to the US, don't recieve any local income, and thus pay no local income taxes, and recieve the first $85K frm the US, tax free. (If I were to be so fortunate to make such). The DR is not a 'tax haven', but is very favorable to expats regarding taxes, overall. An experienced US accounting firm, or attorney, could give much more info than here stated.
I am neither an attorney nor accountant; just one opinion of an individual, living out of country for 20+ years in various places.
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