Arbiter Mandate

[Camron Rust]

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. I do not know about you, but it would be really hard to make $600 at any one school. That least time I did it was when I was working baseball and I worked a game in each of my seasons at a particular college. Otherwise it is nearly impossible to work that many times at any school and especially at the high school level. Too many schools for that to happen (then again my area does not have one assignor for an entire association). I do not begrudge officials to take the same advantages they can when it comes to being an independent contractor and not getting a W2 from a business.

I have been in sales for year and I did the very same thing to take advantage of things to ultimately not pay things I could write off. Officiating is not special in that respect.

Peace

Originally Posted by JRutledge

And that is why it cracks me up when people try to act like if someone takes some cash and does not report it, that we have violated some moral code.

Peace

So, you're advocating that tax evasion is OK? What does that say about the honesty/integrity of the official?