Pitcher Ohtani's Contract Might not be Big Payday for California, Professor Ventry Tells ABC10

California potentially could lose out on $95 million in taxes from Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Shohei Ohtani’s historic $700 million contract with the team, Professor Dennis J. Ventry, Jr. told Sacramento’s ABC10.

Professor Ventry is an expert in tax policy and legal ethics. His research interests include tax expenditure analysis, family taxation, professional responsibility and standards of care, tax filing and administration, tax compliance, public finance, and tax and legal history. He is the former chairman of the IRS Advisory Council, and co-author on the casebook, Federal Income Taxation with Martin McMahon, Jr., Daniel L. Simmons, and Bradley T. Borden.