Toronto Blue Jays' Tax Strategy with Anthony Santander Explained

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00:00now what i don't understand and one thing i i don't get is like the toronto blue jays figured

00:06it out with santander right because the same thing with baseball players not everybody's

00:11excited about the tax but they're making more money so it doesn't bother them as much right

00:14santander's getting what like 35 mil or whatever you know what i mean a year type of deal is making

00:19pretty big money um 30 mil whatever it is i think it's 35 30 whatever um so he's making pretty big

00:27money but there's like a loophole in the canadian tax law about perform work bonuses the blue jays

00:34figured it out they basically gave them like a huge chunk that was technically a bonus

00:38and now they don't really owe him all that much money he didn't have to pay tax on it

00:43so i don't understand why i don't understand why nhl teams haven't gotten as creative as the blue

00:49jays did there i mean i don't i don't fall in for not figuring out before there's always different

00:54loopholes and then they realize what they can do and what they can't do but the blue jays it was

00:59pretty slick of them and i've seen agents on twitter talk about it in somewhat of a defense

01:07of the the tax-free teams in which it's that you know yeah it's a little bit of an advantage but the

01:15fact of the matter is if the canadian teams get creative there's ways around this and you can figure

01:21it out but i don't know if they're not they don't want to they're not doing it or what whatnot but

01:26it is what it is so

01:27you