Daily News | Philadelphia has at least 90,000 reasons to love the Houston Astros: their wage-tax dollars
Not that they would be rooting for the Astros, but the people in Philadelphia’s Revenue Department had at least 90,000 reasons to cheer the arrival this week of the likes of José Altuve, Alex Bregman, Ryan Pressley, and Justin Verlander.
“Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love,” said Stephen Kidder, an attorney with Hemenway & Barnes, in Boston, a tax specialist representing the professional baseball, football, basketball, and hockey players associations. He added that Philly was a “pioneer” in the pursuit of collecting taxes from visiting athletes.
“The first two states that ventured into the arena were California and New York,” he said, but it was Philadelphia in 1993 that elevated the game to another level. “You are liable for taxes wherever you earn income,” said Kidder, but he added that a whole lot of people in other professions who do business in Philadelphia likely get away with avoiding them. “Their salaries aren’t public, their schedules aren’t public,” he said. “It’s not going to be administratively feasible for a jurisdiction to go after them.”
Typically, Kidder said, Major League players usually are “working every day,” starting with spring training and continuing for about 220 days. The Phillies suffered the ignominy of being no-hit on Wednesday, but by any accounting it has been a fantastic week for the city overall and the treasury, and the wage-tax bounty is only a small part of the harvest.
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