re: Major League Pitcher Turns Down Padres $40 Million Offer Due To State Taxes

Padres.

I wouldn’t want to play for that loser organization either. I want to win.

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That’s all I see in your post as you try to justify the communist thieves that have turned your state into shite

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This is what all the retards say then they visit SD and wish they could move here

Texas does not have a State Income tax on wages, interest, dividends, or retirement income.

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This is what all the retards say then they visit SD and wish they could move here

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You just called yourself a retard without even realizing it, you don’t realize it because you’re a retard

That’s part of it. The players still have to agree to the contract. Keeping as much money as possible is why they agree to a deferral.

Shohei is making 2mm of a 700mm contract this season for example because by the time 2034 rolls around and he’s owed the almost 98% of said 700mm contract he agreed to, he’ll be retired and out of CA.

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Ask Sam Darnold how much he made for the Super Bowl. Spoiler alert, he owed money because of California’s jock tax.

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Exactly, came here to say exactly this. There was a really good thread in regards to this on the MSB board during SB week.

Because of the fact that the NFL mandates that each SB team be available to the media for a bare minimum of at least 8 days at the game’s locale leading up to the game, both teams were subject to California’s tax laws. As all NFL teams pay their players over a 18 week schedule not a year round salary. The playoffs and Super Bowl payouts are payed by the league and on a larger pay scale as a team progresses, i.e. players make more for a league championship game than a wildcard game.

California taxed the players on their yearly income and not that post season bonus as a result the players that won the SB received a $187,000ish stipend from the league but Darnold makes $30Mish a year, so it cost him $285,000ish to play the game.

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NFL players, particularly in high-tax states like California, face "8-day tax" liabilities because of jock taxes applied to their income for days spent working (practicing, playing, media) in a specific, non-resident jurisdiction. For events like the Super Bowl, players often arrive ~8 days early, enabling states to tax a prorated share of their season earnings at high rates, often exceeding 13%.

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Yeah its not like the dodgers have the greatest baseball talent in the world or anything

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Who wisely took a contract where the vast majority of his money is deferred payments when he’ll be retired and can claim residency in a low tax state

He’s not avoiding taxes entirely just the heavy penalty of being paid at a higher rate while being a resident of CA.

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If the dodgers are paying him and the Dodgers are in CA, whether or not he is living in CA he is being paid by a company in CA.

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If you work for a company that’s HQ is in NYC but you live and work only in Florida for the year, then you don’t owe any taxes to New York.

Same logic is applicable here. Shohei will be taxed on that deferred money based on where he’s a resident at for that year. Now if he moves back to Japan, I’m not sure if the US fed government will try to tax him…but a state can’t tax him if he did not live or work in the state that year. For his salary while he’s actually playing, he’ll get taxed in each state the team plays in that year and his state taxes are pro-rated by the number of games or days in the state throughout the year

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Again, jock tax doesn’t matter where you live.

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Correct, on salary paid in years while he’s still an active player

Once he’s retired and getting paid massive amounts of deferred money, it does matter where he lives. California won’t be able to tax that money unless he’s still living in CA in retirement