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If you make over a certain amount at a school system through the year they are required to send you a 10-99 for tax purposes. All assignments are made through arbiter and they keep a record also. Would be easy to check by IRS. Officials do claim that money as self employment and have to pay taxes on it at a later date.

To the poster about wishing every game was on video. It is! We as officials would love to get every game we call. But coaches don’t want to be so good with releasing films to officials. We have some coaches who will and some who won’t.

To the poster about shortages being real, the 16th has nearly 100 officials. We are blessed with having Morehead state and draw a lot of young people from There. The downside is these don’t progress through the system at a high rate. Move back home ect, We cover all middle school, freshman, jv, varsity at 16 schools.

On 2/2 there was 11 varsity games in our region (33 officials) 11 jv games (22 officials), seven freshman (14 officials) and our middle school conference tourneys. 16 games. (At least 16 more officials). That’s 85 refs needed to call. Take in account some veterans do college, others have day blocked for family reason and can’t call. So yes there is a shortage of officials. Out of the 100 only about 30-35 are guys who call varsity based on experience and level