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2. NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status Time.com

Mon Feb 6, 2017, 10:31 AM

Feb 2017

Why the NFL Suddenly Wants to Pay Taxes
Sean Gregory
Apr 28, 2015

The NFL announced Tuesday that it's voluntarily relinquishing its tax-exempt status. Here's what you need to know about the move.

Why in the world would the NFL volunteer to pay taxes?

Basically, the economic value of the exemption wasn’t worth the political and PR headaches that it created. In a memo to the league’s teams and members of Congress, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell called the tax-exemption a “distraction,” and said it has “been mischaracterized repeatedly in recent years.”

http://time.com/3839164/nfl-tax-exempt-status/

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I never knew that the NFL has a tax exempt status. [View all] jack69 Feb 2017 OP

The organization does. The teams are for-profit enterprises. CurtEastPoint Feb 2017 #1

NFL Gives Up Tax-Exempt Status Time.com Ptah Feb 2017 #2

It is a church, meeting on Sundays etc Cicada Feb 2017 #3

And a lot of people want to crucify Roger Goodell True Dough Feb 2017 #4

often wines or other spirits are consumed during the service rurallib Feb 2017 #5

They are also owned by multi-millionaires and billionaires that blackmail taxpayers into doc03 Feb 2017 #6