What this is
How tax is taken from Pokémon championship prizes paid to non-US winners: 30% is deducted automatically and sent to the US tax authority; winners must claim back any difference themselves.
How it’s built
- Read from TPCi's awards payment FAQ, version 2.0 of 2019 (file dated January 2020).
What we assumed
Nothing. The figure is used as published.
Sanity check
Lower treaty rates are not applied at source, so a winner from a treaty country receives 70% first and claims the rest later; whether the rule is unchanged in 2026 is not confirmed.
Where it comes from
Championship Event Awards Disbursement Information/FAQs V 2.0 2019 The Pokémon Company International · 8 January 2020 Open the original ↗
The line in the source
Payments to Non-US taxpayers will automatically have a 30% deduction for our tax remittance to the IRS, and the responsibility to claim the difference falls to the individual award winners.