Quote Originally Posted by ElCid View Post
Yeah I get that. But the gray areas is where the dirty details are. Player gets a NIL deal for being on team. He gets paid x amount per month. If he goes to a different state and has his picture taken or is filmed (at a game, practice, or recruiting use) by NIL source ... oops. If a CEO travels to another state and is simply photographed at a company event, he is on the clock for taxes in that state. What about out of state players still maintaining residency in their home state? Player from NY, playing and getting NIL in Florida. As a NY resident, he will owe taxes to NY, not Florida. It's going to be a mess for some kids. And if a link can be established between recruiting and NIL, a court might be inclined to treat it as all income and simply a shell game source and a pay for play. And then there are those who are not talking about NIL at all, but regular pay for players. Then it's game on, no questions asked for multi state taxes. It won't be clean at all in any event.
All of this is where the "JUST PAY TAXES. HAVE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY" really starts to break down.

We have the biggest "JUST PAY TAXES. HAVE SOME ACCOUNTABILITY" people on the planet here who have just known, in their DNA, that taxes have to be paid a certain way depending how you get paid, sitting here debating back and forth on how taxesw ould need to be paid or not paid or based on where. Yet the expectation is just these 18-20 year olds who have likely never had more than a few hundred at a time to be accountable for is expected just to instantly know this.

Plus the speed at which NIL is evolving and expecting these students to just instantly know all of this.

Are we starting to see where it's not entirely just "PAY YOUR TAXES" and it goes deeper than that?

As CH said, "those in power don't want you to know". He's right, and I said the same earlier. Tax code and tax law are intentionally as complicated as possible. They spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year trying to get congress to pass new tax laws making it as hard as possible for people to file on their own. Hell, a couple of them have tried to make it illegal/impossible for people to file on their own without paying exorbitant costs in doing so.