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Team officials told the Journal they believe there are significant cost-savings possibilities in the new CBA if the team can keep its payroll down in the next few years—so the Yankees would seem loath to take on significant new long-term contracts that would keep them over the luxury-tax threshold.

An Unusually Quiet Yankee Winter Daniel Barbarisi 2011

The luxury-tax changes are also a mixed bag for the big clubs.

Baseball's 'Fairness' Doctrine: Yawn Daniel Barbarisi 2011

The moves break the league's salary cap and will require a $19 million luxury-tax payment to the NBA, wiping out any chance at an operating profit in the arena's inaugural year.

Orlando's Magic New Kingdom David Whelan 2011

The new system has cost the Yankees dearly the club paid $174 million in luxury-tax payments from 2003 to 2009, according to Wayne McDonnell, professor of sports management at New York University but it hardly has slowed them.

A Pioneer in the Business of Baseball 2010

The Yankees have been subsidizing the Rays and other teams with their revenue-sharing and luxury-tax payments, Steinbrenner says, so they should be thanking the Yankees.

Younger Steinbrenner a chip off the old Boss since taking reins 2008

There also are growing talks with a few teams that Suns forward-center Kurt Thomas and a pick could be dealt for luxury-tax relief.

Suns seek to move up in NBA's draft 2007

We will always work to put the most talent on the floor relative to the cap, but we won't go above the luxury-tax threshold.

Questions for: Greg Miller Greg Corcoran 2009

On Wednesday, the NHL presented the idea that a new deal be made using the players 'association's proposal from Dec. 9 that included a luxury-tax system and a 24% salary rollback on existing contracts.

USATODAY.com - Chances for NHL season melting away 2005

STARTING POINT: Putting union's Dec. 9, 2004, proposal in effect and playing under that luxury-tax system until one of four financial limits is exceeded.

USATODAY.com - Chances for NHL season melting away 2005

The Heat do not want to be a luxury-tax team, and paying O'Neal $20 million annually — a figure some could consider a bargain — should not send Miami over the tax threshold.

USATODAY.com - O'Neal agrees to five-year, $100M deal with Heat 2005