Rick Cohen from the Nonprofit Quarterly has recently noted that New Orleans gave the NFL $800,000 in sales and tax exemptions for organizing Super Bowl XLVII in the city.
Does the NFL (or its member teams) need exemption from local taxes to make the Super Bowl a viable economic activity? Could the $184 million NFL, and its multiple teams valued at a billion dollars or more, have survived paying $800,000 in taxes to local New Orleans governmental units?
