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Excise tax on colleges allowing disqualified athletes to compete
Colleges that let players compete in college sports who have bet on college games or who have been on a professional sports roster face a tax on their athletic revenue, ranging from 5 to 20 percent based on how often they break the rule.
- Population Scope Low Only colleges and universities with intercollegiate athletic programs are directly liable — a narrow set of institutions far below even a broad share of U.S. entities.
- Budgetary Magnitude Medium The tax is recurring and scales up to 20% of gross athletic receipts, which can reach hundreds of millions at large programs, but enforcement depends on relatively rare violations, keeping aggregate federal revenue uncertain and likely modest.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth High Creates a new statutory tax mandate with binding financial liability, an escalating penalty structure, and a new category of prohibited institutional conduct — a substantive legal obligation that did not previously exist.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Medium The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to prescribe regulations and retains authority to aggregate violations sharing the same facts, granting meaningful but bounded administrative discretion.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium The IRS must identify violations, apply a multi-year lookback window, adjudicate aggregation determinations, and collect an excise tax — a recurring case-by-case compliance and enforcement obligation, though the affected universe is small.
- Temporal Commitment High Applies to all taxable years ending after enactment with no expiration date, persisting indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal or amend it.
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Exceptions
Such term shall not include any instance in which a specified individual— actively participates in a practice session for any intercollegiate athletic event or competition, appears on a roster for, but does not actively participate in, any intercollegiate athletic event or competition, or actively…
- Population Scope Low Carves out only the narrow subset of specified individuals whose participation is limited to practice, roster appearance without play, or court-ordered participation — a vanishingly small share of any population.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated; the exceptions reduce the taxable event count but do not themselves constitute a budgetary action.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Constrains the definition of a taxable violation by carving out specific circumstances, limiting the substantive reach of the parent tax mandate rather than creating new independent legal obligations.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low The exceptions are enumerated and categorical with no agency discretion to expand or contract them, leaving no meaningful delegated authority.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low Reduces rather than adds enforcement burden by narrowing the set of events that trigger liability, requiring only factual determinations already embedded in the parent provision.
- Temporal Commitment High Tied to the parent provision with no expiration date, these exceptions persist indefinitely unless Congress affirmatively acts to remove them.
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Summary
This bill would create a new tax on colleges and universities that allow certain players to compete in college sports. Schools would be taxed a share of their athletic revenue if they let someone play who has bet on college sports or who has been on a professional sports team's roster. The tax rate goes up the more times a school breaks the rule, reaching as high as 20 percent of athletic revenue.
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Regulatory or Legal Changes Top 2
Excise tax on colleges allowing disqualified athletes to compete
Colleges that let players compete in college sports who have bet on college games or who have been on a professional sports roster face a tax on their athletic revenue, ranging from 5 to 20 percent based on how often they break the rule.
- Population Scope Low Only colleges and universities with intercollegiate athletic programs are directly liable — a narrow set of institutions far below even a broad share of U.S. entities.
- Budgetary Magnitude Medium The tax is recurring and scales up to 20% of gross athletic receipts, which can reach hundreds of millions at large programs, but enforcement depends on relatively rare violations, keeping aggregate federal revenue uncertain and likely modest.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth High Creates a new statutory tax mandate with binding financial liability, an escalating penalty structure, and a new category of prohibited institutional conduct — a substantive legal obligation that did not previously exist.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Medium The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to prescribe regulations and retains authority to aggregate violations sharing the same facts, granting meaningful but bounded administrative discretion.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Medium The IRS must identify violations, apply a multi-year lookback window, adjudicate aggregation determinations, and collect an excise tax — a recurring case-by-case compliance and enforcement obligation, though the affected universe is small.
- Temporal Commitment High Applies to all taxable years ending after enactment with no expiration date, persisting indefinitely until Congress acts to repeal or amend it.
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Regulatory or Legal Changes
Excise tax on colleges allowing disqualified athletes to compete
Carve-outs, Exemptions, Eligibility Top 2
Exceptions
Such term shall not include any instance in which a specified individual— actively participates in a practice session for any intercollegiate athletic event or competition, appears on a roster for, but does not actively participate in, any intercollegiate athletic event or competition, or actively…
- Population Scope Low Carves out only the narrow subset of specified individuals whose participation is limited to practice, roster appearance without play, or court-ordered participation — a vanishingly small share of any population.
- Budgetary Magnitude Low No funds are authorized, appropriated, or obligated; the exceptions reduce the taxable event count but do not themselves constitute a budgetary action.
- Legal / Regulatory Depth Medium Constrains the definition of a taxable violation by carving out specific circumstances, limiting the substantive reach of the parent tax mandate rather than creating new independent legal obligations.
- Degree of Discretion Granted Low The exceptions are enumerated and categorical with no agency discretion to expand or contract them, leaving no meaningful delegated authority.
- Implementation & Enforcement Burden Low Reduces rather than adds enforcement burden by narrowing the set of events that trigger liability, requiring only factual determinations already embedded in the parent provision.
- Temporal Commitment High Tied to the parent provision with no expiration date, these exceptions persist indefinitely unless Congress affirmatively acts to remove them.
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