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Is The NFL Tax-Exempt?

12/1/2016

 
The NFL is a strange animal. It's kind of like a corporate office and all the teams are various businesses reporting to them (32 NFL teams). Each team gives $6 million dollars each year ($192 million total), to provide services like broadcast rights, contract disputes, player and team discipline/fines, licensing, marketing, merchandising, etc.). Each team owner pays taxes but the NFL doesn't. The $6 million each team gives to the NFL isn't taxed as it is considered given to a... non-profit.

Why don't they pay taxes? This tax haven was created in 1966 and was tacked onto another Bill that had nothing to do with a non-exempt status (it was basically an earmark/pork), for the merging leagues of the AFL and NFL. Pete Rozelle was pretty much responsible for the deal being cut.

​Keep in mind it's supposed to be a non-profit so what do they do to help accomplish this...they pay their people outrageous salaries like Roger Goodell (the commissioner), who will have a $20 million dollar salary per his contract in the next couple of years. Steve Bornstein who is the NFL Network President is making a comparable salary. It's a scam. Please contact your representatives and ask him or her why the NFL qualifies as a non-profit; according to the IRS's criteria, they don't.

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    Author: John Mann

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