The Luka Trade: Collusion?

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  1. wizenheimer

    wizenheimer Well-Known Member

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    I was self employed from when I was 23 to when I retired at 67. So, 44 years

    I was in business in Oregon-->Alaska-->Arizona-->Oregon

    my tax classifications went...Partnership-->Corporation-->sole proprietor-->S-Corp-->sole proprietor. I decided there weren't enough tax and financial benefits to being incorporated to warrant all the quarterly filings and paperwork that came with it. So, for about the last 15-20 years I was a sole proprietor without employees. Easy-peasy...relatively
     
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    Please write me in your will.
     
  3. wizenheimer

    wizenheimer Well-Known Member

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    sure...I'll put the picture in your sig in my will and let them figure it out
     
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    Luka was already my least favorite player in the league to watch. I like seeing teams who move the ball, pick and roll, good rotations on D... team play. He's a ball hog, dribble dribble dribble, slam my fat ass into you and scream for a call as he hoists another fade away. He complains to the refs all game every game. Now he's going to my least favorite team. The Lakers are that primarily because of the widely perceived unfair treatment they've received from the officials for decades... that and LA sucks.

    Pretty sure I won't be jumping on the bandwagon any time soon

    STOMP
     
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    Strenuus Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    This tax talk is so erotic.
     
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    Do you work in a cubicle?
     
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    HailBlazers RipCity

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    Nico had all the leverage regardless of dough boys health. Dude got abused.
     
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    BrianFromWA Editor in Chief Staff Member Editor in Chief

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    The Red Sox did...:shrug:
     
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    How the NBA allowed scum like the Adelsons to buy an NBA team is beyond me.
     
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    See you still don't understand it. An LLC activity can all be directly on an individuals tax return. So the premise that LLC have different tax rates than individuals is sometimes false as they can be identical when they are on an individuals returns.

    An LLC can alternatively be on its own tax return as a partnership or a corporation and then they would be taxed in those ways.

    An LLC is a legal structure, it doesn't have a single defined tax treatment.
     
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    All of those could be an LLC.
     
  12. wizenheimer

    wizenheimer Well-Known Member

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    maybe...but they weren't
    what are you even arguing?

    my contention is that Doncic will pay more in taxes on his salary in CA than he would if he was still in Texas. Do you dispute that?
     
  13. Natebishop3

    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Something interesting....

    If you subscribe to the theory that the Blazers pushed Dame out by drafting Scoot and stealth tanking, this is why. The massive fit that the Mavs fans are throwing right now. If Dame had not asked for a trade and the Blazers had traded him a year earlier like I wanted, there would have been a large number of fans who would have absolutely furious at the team. So I am 100% convinced the team pushed him into a position where he had to ask out.
     
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    I'm not arguing anything - I just made a factual statement in reply when you had posted an incorrect one.

    I never disputed Doncic will pay more in CA than Texas.
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    That actually sounds like a nightmare considering how much you travel not just for the NBA but all the other work you do.
     
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    Yeah if it's an NBA star making 10 million+ per year I'm sure they can have an accounting team deal with it all.

    Didn't really think of all the NBA staff, but yeah they would have to deal with filing in all the same states.

    Probably quicker to list the states you don't have to file in than ones you do.
     
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    This trade has shook the stars in the NBA. They thought they were untouchable. Anthony Edwards was shook he told his GM to please let him know if he’s ever being traded. Embid actually played and had triple double asked why he played so well “because I didn’t want to be traded”.
     
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    Its good when people get shaken up a bit on occasion.
     
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    Couldn't this lesson have been done without the damn Lakers being gifted another superstar?
     
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