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Strip the NFL of it's tax exempt status.

Created by R.G. on November 14, 2012

The NFl currently has a 501(c)(6) tax exempt status and that status is "provides for the exemption of business leagues, chambers of commerce, real estate boards, boards of trade and professional football leagues, which are not organized for profit and no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual." and while the NFL technically qualifies as a business league it is organize as a for profit organization which is in violation for the 501(c)(6) status " No part of a business league's net earnings may inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual and it may not be organized for profit to engage in an activity ordinarily carried on for profit" and the NFL has paid it's key executives millions of dollars.

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