#SLOE: People's Basketball Sim League

A team's "minimum tax" is locked in at the trade deadline - per the rules for in-season Free Agency here: viewtopic.php?t=5222 - "Players may not be released after the Trade Deadline unless a squad has to cut a player because a pre-trade deadline trade put their roster over 15 players and they must cut down to 15 or they have 8 or more injured players and signing enough players to get them to the minimum 8 healthy players cannot otherwise be accomplished (I.e., "involuntary cuts only")." So you can't cut players after the Trade Deadline to reduce your tax bill.
If a team's salary increases after the trade deadline (e.g., you have to sign a player to get to 8 healthy players due to injury), your "minimum tax" is based on the new salary total.
The above two points mean a team's final tax bill is based on whatever the team's highest salary total is at any time after the trade deadline has passed.

Potential Repeaters (see last year's tax thread at: viewtopic.php?t=15649)
Hawks - 2 years

Projected Tax Bills (as of Expanson Draft)
None

Season 9 Tax Brackets (based on cap of $9,889,578)