Athletes pay even if they don't play. (Tax Matters).The "jock tax In the United States, the jock tax is the colloquially named income tax levied against visitors to a city or state who earn money in that jurisdiction. Since a state cannot afford to track the many individuals who do business on an itinerant basis, the ones targeted are usually "--levied in some states on the incomes of nonresident non·res·i·dent adj. 1. Not living in a particular place: nonresident students who commute to classes. 2. sports employees in town for the day of a game--affects teammates whether or not they get off the bench. For athletes in baseball's National and American leagues American League (AL) One of the two associations of professional baseball teams in the U.S. and Canada designated as major leagues; the other is the National League (NL). , for example, one game in Wisconsin could cost a team a combined $133,740 in taxes. |
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