- Hyatt Launches Public Bug Bounty Program With Hackerone by Hyatt. This is a smart move given the SPG data breach, realistically Hyatt should have already had something like this in place but better late than never.
- Reader Rob reports that Capital One credit/debit card holders can get a free Peets drink when they bring in a reusable mug to the Capital One cafe for the month of January. Non-cardholders get 50% off. It’s not clear if this is available at all Capital One cafe’s or only the one in Seattle – Westlake. Some discussion on reddit when Rob previously posted as well.
- Looks like the Cassa Hotel NY 45th Street Radisson property is leaving Radisson after February 6th, 2019. At least it’s not bookable after that date. Hat tip to reader Zac L
- The NCAA Does Not Care About Student Athletes And Here’s The Proof… by Philip De Franco.
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The athletic revenue from basketball and football is super important to most large universities and funds all the other non-revenue sports. Paying the players would have all sorts of negative consequences. It would likely eliminate all the scholarships for other sports with true student athletes and increase tuition for everyone.
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Fuck the NCAA
The constant jump cuts in that NCAA video make it unwatchable for me. I hate that it’s such a prevalent presentation style on YouTube.
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College players will never get paid as donations will significantly slow if it isn’t non-profit. It would be a very large net loss for universities unless there is some huge rework of the tax law surrounding this.
That’s not how it works. Paying student athletes wouldn’t force colleges to lose their non-profit status any more than paying coaches does. Non-profit status has nothing to do with how much employees are paid, or not paid.
If you are paying your “employees” in a capacity that generates revenue for entertainment purposes, that is not covered under any sort of non-profit status – it doesn’t fit the legal definition of a non-profit. You are correct, “non-profit status has nothing to do with how much employees are paid”, but it has everything to do with what the business is actually doing. By paying people to come generate revenue on entertainment that brings in a profit is certainly by all means a for-profit business. This is why the NFL and NBA, which would be nearly identical in structure to the model you are proposing are for-profit businesses.
Non profit orgs can pay their employees and still be non profit
I really don’t think you understand the implications of them being employees are. This isn’t a regular non-profit – they are making plenty of money that generally goes back to the university coffers. A real non-profit is increasing their budget and expanding with income. Alabama isn’t opening up new universities over the country and expanding – they just exist as is. Making them employees would set of a chain reaction which inevitably makes these College Sports for-profit institutions. Then arguably any scholarship is taxable as well as other benefits college athletes receive. Let’s say you pay a college athlete 25K and their tuition/board is 25K. That 50K taxable to a single person is going to be a 10-15K tax bill. Not only that, the university will have to hire a new army of Accountants. And the final nail in the coffin is that large benefactors would no longer contribute because they don’t get their tax write-off to an institution that is for-profit. There are so many countless legal and tax issues it will never happen.
Any scholarship money spent on eligible education expenses is not taxable income.
Yes currently, but that will certainly change in the scenario that athletes are paid. Since they are paid athletes, all benefits they receive (outside of health) would be taxed. Even ESPN has freely admitted this because they have consulted CPAs.
I received tuition reimbursement from my employer and was not taxed for that benefit. I’m not saying I know more than a CPA, but I’m just wondering what the difference is.
Edit: I guess you can only get $5250 from your employer tax free.
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/tax-benefits-for-education-information-center
Many companies offer this. The caveat is that they are required to take classes to be an athlete by their “employer” so it is very different. You can’t write off a business deduction to yourself. If ABC Employer requires John to work play basketball for ABC and also to take classes at ABC, they cannot write off expenses of his tuition AND let him get that money tax free. That’s writing off the same expense twice which doesn’t work. The ABC Employer loses money in this situation and also people are less likely to give ABC Employer money because they can’t write-off on their taxes. It’s a bunch of domino’s avid sports fans constantly bring up without any understanding of Tax law.
It’s time to close my Radisson credit card.
I dig Phil DeFranco and that video was cool, but what’s that have to do with Finance / CC stuff?
This is a recap. DoC recap has always been whatever Will feels worth sharing, related to credit card or not.
As with everything, no one is forcing you to watch or read it. I don’t get it: you don’t want certain content here because you feel it’s not worth your time/effort to look at it, and yet you use that time to instead leave a comment?
Think.
Nothing. Recap posts are for me to post things I find interesting =)