Sean Payton moves to Dallas, will commute to New Orleans

For what its worth, when I lived in Louisiana and worked in Texas I had to pay Louisiana state income tax (which was a bit of a hassle because my Texas employer would not withhold for it). I don't know how it would work going the other way. My guess is that as long as he owns a home in Louisiana, he'll have to pay taxes.

The other half of this is that, in Texas, you pay a lot in property tax, especially in a ritzy school district like I'm sure he's moving his kids to. In a trade off for no income tax, property taxes are pretty high statewide and local property taxes can be astronomical. On the other hand, Louisiana has a homestead exemption that makes property taxes pretty cheap.

Both states have huge problems with taxes being so low, they don't come close to producing the revenue they need to have functional state governments.

 

I stand corrected. I asked someone who does taxes for a lot of athletes about this. As you note, there's no reciprocity between LA and TX, so Payton would have to pay taxes to LA. He could claim non-resident status and for the weeks the team plays away, he would not have to pay tax to LA.

 

St. Tammany Parish schools (Payton lives in Mandeville) aren't shabby. I'm not sure if the kids were in private school up there. New Orleans has some very good private schools as well. Newman, the alma mater of the Manning (edited) brothers and author Michael Lewis, is a very highly-thought-of private school. Country Day is a good school. The Catholic schools are very good.

I just think Dallas is where the Paytons feel most rooted. I agree that this isn't necessarily a huge deal, but it does naturally lead to speculation on whether he's angling to go back to his former employer.

 

Perhaps I'm wrong. I was thinking of a situation I know of, but that involved two no-income-tax states, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.

Carry on.

 

It will be fine. Matt Millen commuted between Pennsylvania and Detroit when he was with the Lions and it didn't affect his job performance.

 

Gregg Doyel (Google alert) weighs in...

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/story/14672189/uproar-over-paytons-place-negates-sympathy-for-new-orleans

 

The STP public schools are way better than New Orleans public schools, but I highly doubt that Payton was sending his kids to public schools. As you said, there are plenty of great private schools in both St. Tammany Parish and the greater New Orleans area.

 

I will attest that Texas property taxes are ridiculously high. When I moved, I was stunned by how much more I was paying in property tax.

 

i thought all of westlake went to carroll isd but now see they're split among three districts and vaquero club is indeed in keller isd. for football purposes, i'd bet they'd rather be future dragons.

 

Outstanding.

 

I think I'm coming around on this one. I initially thought Payton was going to commute on a regular basis from Dallas (because that's what Werder's original report said).

With his family in Dallas he'll see them only a few less hours than those who live in the same town. I can't imagine living away from my wife and kids, but I'm not a NFL coach.

 

Embarrassing. This guy calls himself a professional journalist?