Arbiter Mandate

[Welpe]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

People that are self-employed or run some kind of business often take advantage of any rules that allow them to not pay taxes. That is not unusual to officiating. And often those advantages are not illegal.

That is absolutely true and if legal, I have no problem with it.

What Camron is saying is that there are officials who will stop taking assignments from a certain entity if they know they are close to hitting $600 which will require a 1099 to be generated by law. They are doing this to reduce the actual records of the income they make because they more than likely aren't claiming what isn't reported on a 1099.

Remember, regardless of whether a 1099 is issued or not, you're legally required to claim that income. The $600 threshold was implemented to reduce the paperwork burden on entities paying small sums infrequently to independent contractors.

I do not know about you, but it would be really hard to make $600 at any one school.

I can see that if you're paid by each school. Here we are paid by the district for public school games. I'm usually good for 1-2 1099s a year in the districts I work the most.