Room for Debate: Tax Break for Sports

End the N.F.L. Tax Breaks

Ryan Alexander, Taxpayers for Common Sense

Sports leagues like the N.F.L. help teams make money through business ventures – a fine goal for teams, but not one taxpayers need to subsidize.

Nonprofit Status Is Irrelevant

Andrew Zimbalist, economist, Smith College

The tax exemption does not apply to the individual teams, but to the leagues, which operate as pass-through entities.

It Might Not Bring In Any More Money

Judith Grant Long, Professor of Sports Management

Focusing on the nonprofit issue detracts from the more substantial burdens placed on taxpayers in the building and taxing of sports stadiums and arenas.

Sports Leagues Do Not Need Taxpayer Help

Patrick Hruby, Journalist

The N.F.L. as a whole takes in over $9 billion in annual revenue, more than the reported 2013 GDP of 49 countries.

Nonprofit Teams Rather Than Leagues?

Richard Steinberg, professor of economics

Many commercial organizations are nonprofits, as billion-dollar universities sell education and hospitals sell healthcare.

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