"When Gaelic Players Association chief executive Tom Parsons was starting out on the road with Mayo in 2008, it was also the first year that inter-county players saw Government grants drop into their accounts. It had been hard-fought after the initial push to have a tax-relief scheme for GAA players - similar to that which retired professional sports people in this country could and still can claim 40pc relief from any 10 years of assessment from their careers - was deemed inoperable."
"It had been hard-fought after the initial push to have a tax-relief scheme for GAA players - similar to that which retired professional sports people in this country could and still can claim 40pc relief from any 10 years of assessment from their careers - was deemed inoperable."
Tom Parsons began his inter-county career with Mayo in 2008. 2008 was the first year that inter-county players received Government grants directly into their accounts. This development followed a prolonged campaign after an initial proposal to establish a tax-relief scheme for GAA players proved inoperable. The proposed tax-relief would have mirrored arrangements available to retired professional sportspeople, permitting 40% relief across any ten years of assessment from their careers. The failure of the tax-relief proposal led to the adoption of direct Government grants for inter-county players.
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