PuckPedia Tax Calculator

[PromoTheRobot]

https://puckpedia.com/tax-calculator

Now you can see how much more or less of a tax bite a player gets when changing teams.

[JoeSchmoe]

Pretty cool. I always thought though that you pay tax based on where you earned it though.

So Buffalo's away games in Nashville for instance are taxed at the Nashville rates. As a result, I thought there was better tax parity compared to whats shown in this calculator. Seems odd that the Sabres and Islanders would have the exact same tax rate based on presumably different schedules. NYR is higher, but that could be a Manhattan thing. Toronto and Ottawa are identical too... As are all the CA teams.

Maybe I was misinformed.

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, JoeSchmoe said:

Pretty cool. I always thought though that you pay tax based on where you earned it though.

So Buffalo's away games in Nashville for instance are taxed at the Nashville rates. As a result, I thought there was better tax parity compared to whats shown in this calculator. Seems odd that the Sabres and Islanders would have the exact same tax rate based on presumably different schedules. NYR is higher, but that could be a Manhattan thing. Toronto and Ottawa are identical too... As are all the CA teams.

Maybe I was misinformed.

You get paid every day you are on an NHL roster.  Pay is meted out on a ~1/187th rate (the approximate # of days in a regular season).  MOST of your off-days, you are at home so the vast majority of your pay is earned at home.

But IIRC a handful of states have really onerous tax rates on pro athletes showing up from other states.  Recall having read articles to that effect, but don't know how accurate the articles were.  (Supposedly, regardless of how the players get paid, they base their calculation on a different formula so that guys that are up from the minors can essentially owe everything they made on that particular callup.  Take it with a grain of salt as personally have never verified those articles.)