"The fairest system would be for them to pay transfer fees for artists, like footballers.
The N.H.L. will no longer pay transfer fees for European free agents.
As you may have figured, we don't pay transfer fees for players.
Buyers do not pay transfer taxes or stamp duty; the seller pays 2.5percenttransferer tax and a 1percentt stamp duty, Mr. Layson said.
But they often have difficulties competing with bigger clubs, which borrow huge amounts to pay transfer fees and wages.
The M.L.S. SuperDraft stands out as a peculiarly American exercise in a soccer world that is all about signing young talent, paying transfer fees and signing free agents.
Such arrangements allow the heirs to avoid paying transfer taxes at the death of each generation and protect them from creditors.
For Barcelona to have to pay transfer fees for such stars as Messi, Xavi and Iniesta at about the same time "would be impossible," Folguera said.
But other strategies are so obscure that they are only known to the very few who worry about passing millions to their heirs without paying transfer taxes.
Buyers then pay transfer taxes (ranging from 9 to 11percentt) on the objective value, regardless of what they actually paid for the property, according to Catherine-Madeleine Marcopoulos, an independent lawyer who specializes in Greek real estate contract law.
The trend is for teams to hire locally, primarily because M.L.S. operates in its own — some would say alternate — universe of limited payrolls ($2.95 million a team this year, with several exceptions) and an aversion to paying transfer fees.
