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Originally Posted by TxUmp
You may be facing legal problems by having your games paid by your association. We had legal advice that such a procedure would open us up to tax problems.
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It doesn't sound like your legal advice came from the IRS or a tax attorney. The IRS has told us that has very little to do with the determination as to whether or not an employee/employer relationship exists. Many manufacturer reps who are independent contractors get their checks from one source and it does not infer such a relationship.
Due to a lawsuit against the local basketball association, we conferred with the IRS about our status. We will be making a fewchanges, including having all umpires sign an independent contractor agreement, disavowing any prohibition against working for other associations or directly for leagues and not providing any benefits to the contractors other than available work for a mutually agreed upon compensation. We've been told by the IRS and and our tax attorney that we're good to go.