10-17-2022, 11:56 AM
(10-16-2022, 08:33 PM)audiosway Wrote: While there is some truth to what you are saying I still don't think they care about the tax as much as people think. .
1 I would agree that they are less sensitive to having to pay tax than most other teams, and see it TO A CERTAIN LEVEL as "spending money to make money." My pushback is about the idea that it's not even a consideration at all.
2 Keep in mind that because the gross revenues exceed player payroll, that doesn't mean they will be profitable. There are many other expenses.
3 Your numbers are way off regarding this season -- you're saying they will have a "player payroll + tax" that's nearing $500M and that's way high for this season. But their actual numbers are still huge and support the point that they are working at a different level.
Last season GS had a player payroll of 175 and paid tax of 170.
This season their payroll so far is 190 and tax tracking to be 170.
In 2023-24 it's adding up so far to be about 220 with tax of about 300.
But -- that only tells us what it looks like so far, but doesn't tell us if those are numbers the W's will work to lower significantly. Do they find those numbers workable, or are they merely where they find themselves on paper at the moment? We won't know the answer to that until June 2024.