Mississippi House Passes Bill To Exempt Student-Athletes From Income Taxes

by Larry Leo

March 2, 202611 Comments

Well, that's nice of them. What about the rest of us?...

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[tweet]Clarion Ledger — Student athletes inking multimillion dollar name, image and likeness dealsin Mississippi could see their income become tax-exempt as early as next year.

The Mississippi House passed a bill to exclude NIL earnings from the state's income tax, which will be eliminated for all Mississippians in about a decade. The provision, said Rep. Trey Lamar, R-Senatobia, would make Mississippi an attractive destination for top athletes and give college coaches another recruiting perk.

"NIL is taking the country and coming by storm," he said. "Other states are doing it, and I believe it's time that Mississippi starts doing this as well."[/tweet]

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TomLee•4 hours

That bill is some bullshite. Pay the tax man like the rest of us.

cajunmud•4 hours

That's a good first step. Now don't discriminate against everyone else.

ArmydawgMD•4 hours

Why tf should a ball player get rewarded when all the joe blows out there working 9-5s don't?

chadr07•5 hours

Stuff like this is what starts riots. Good job continuing to screw the regular citizens over

TouchdownTony•5 hours

Everybody wanted this BS. Now it’s time to pay the fiddler. Anybody that didn’t see this train wreck coming was ignorant.

HagaDaga•5 hours

Citizens of states doing this should be grabbing their pitchforks until all state income taxes are removed. For all. Not just the entitled.

cajunmud•4 hours

Don't forget the torches. Might as well grab up some tar and feathers while they're at it.

DonJuanDaMiles•5 hours

Dude frick all this paying athletes and not taxing them so people can watch college football. Don’t Mississippi and Arkansas have bigger problems than paying college athletes, the .001% of them that are getting NIL income in those states at that.

Jack Daniel•5 hours

Mississippi is already in the process of doing away with income tax for all residents. They are stepping it down each year and completely eliminated by 2030

TouchdownTony•5 hours

MS will basically become a bigger wasteland than it is. Dumbest thing the poorest state in America could do.

6R12•4 hours

Touchdown Tony you need to score a TD to really enjoy the reduction of taxes. I think it will eventually benefit MS. It may take a few years but it will help if they don't undo those changes.

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