SidelineWealth™

The NIL tax illustration that wins you the athlete.

Model any athlete's S-Corp, multi-state, and quarterly tax picture live — then hand them a branded plan showing exactly how much more they'll keep. Figures current, sourced, and built to survive a CPA's review.

Illustrative example — not client data
Northbrook Wealth Partners
Prepared for your review
Prepared exclusively for
Jordan R.
Football · WR · Junior
NIL & Revenue-Share Tax Plan

On $330,000 in NIL and revenue-share income reported as active-service income, this plan projects the athlete can keep an additional $35,452–$36,952 every year — by electing an S-Corporation, maxing retirement, and structuring estimated taxes around it.

Annual income
$330,000
Est. net savings / yr
$35,452–$36,952
Effective rate (optimized)
25.3%
Quarterly estimate
$18,820
Total tax — without a structured plan$122,097
Total tax — with the S-Corp plan$83,645
Annual tax saved$38,452

The range above is the tax saved net of the S-Corp's running cost ($1,500$3,000/yr for payroll and CPA work); the $38,452 here is the gross reduction before that cost.

What we recommend
Elect an S-Corporation

A reasonable salary of about $130,000 with the rest taken as a distribution removes 15.3% self-employment tax from the distribution — via Form 2553.

Fund a Solo 401(k) — about $29,742/yr saved

Defer salary plus employer contributions to lower this year's tax while building retirement wealth — the bulk of the plan.

Illustration only — figures are computed under current 2025 federal and state law from the sample inputs shown, not a substitute for a filed return or individualized advice. Confirm with a licensed CPA or tax attorney.
The illustration your firm uses to win the athlete.Advisors model a real tax picture live, then hand the athlete the result — branded to your practice.
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Built by a former Division I and professional basketball coach who navigated the new NIL & revenue-share era with his own son. Why we built this

The athlete

A few required details first — fields marked amber need your input for an accurate plan.
Annual NIL / revenue-share income$150,000
Month of first payment (this year)
We'll prorate your annual income from this month through year-end. Choose January for a full year.
How the income is reported
Taxable scholarship (room/board over COA) iScholarship money for room/board above the cost of attendance is taxable income — not a deduction.$0
Filing status
Home state
S-Corp salary to yourself$60,000
Recommended ≈ $60,000 (~40% of service income — a defensible reasonable-comp floor)
Deductible business expenses$0
Real, documented costs of running your NIL business — gear, travel to appearances, training, phone/internet, software, professional fees. (Vehicle, home office, and health insurance have their own fields under Advanced.)
Agent / management fee0%
Elect PTET (S-Corp pays state tax)
Reasonable-compensation check
40%Your salary is 40% of revenue — a defensible range for the W-2 salary an S-Corp owner pays themselves.
Figures use 2025 (as of 2025-07-04) federal and state rules. Out-of-state appearance income is modeled separately in the Multi-state section below.
See your optimized tax plan
Set three quick details and we'll show your entity recommendation, estimated savings, and quarterly taxes.
  1. Filing status
  2. Home state
  3. How the income is reported
Takes about a minute · 2025 rules
International & nonresident athletes

Got a foreign athlete on the roster? A normal NIL plan quietly breaks.

Visa work-authorization, tax treaties, FDAP withholding, ITIN, 1040-NR — a domestic S-Corp calculator can't touch any of it, so most advisors turn these athletes away. SidelineWealth doesn't: check whether a deal is even allowed, model the nonresident tax, hand over a branded deal-clearance memo, and monitor the immigration & visa-policy sources — not just the tax code — that can change the answer. It's the one capability that wins their whole book.

Go / no-go deal clearance memo67-country treaty engineImmigration & visa-policy Law WatchRecruit briefings for prospects

Not just a calculator — a platform for firms

Advisors, agencies, and firms run their whole book of athlete clients here: oversight across the roster, work assigned and reviewed, and a record of every decision — all under your own brand.

Whole-book oversight

One dashboard across every active client — upcoming filing deadlines, overdue and unassigned tasks, plans running on older tax rules, and deals due for a refresh — computed live from the engine, never a stale export.

Separation of duties

Preparer → reviewer sign-off on every client plan, with the reviewer required to be a different person than the preparer. Re-running a plan after review sends it back to be reviewed again.

A record of every decision

An append-only, tamper-resistant trail of the work your team does — task changes, sign-offs, document generation, plan re-runs — filterable by client, person, action, or date.

Roles and visibility you set

Give each team member a professional role — CPA, wealth advisor, relationship manager, legal — and a configurable matrix sets what each role sees in the cockpit. A relationship manager can follow task status without the tax figures in view.

Season-end engagement packet

One click produces a firm-branded PDF per client — the plan summary, sign-off log, task and filing completion, and the full history — assembled live from current data.

Everything exports

The audit trail, the book-of-business, and your access-policy matrix each export to CSV or print to a firm-branded PDF — the record a partner or reviewer might ask to see.

See the firm platform

Always the law as it stands today.

Federal, state, and NCAA rules change constantly. Monitoring agents watch the primary sources; nothing reaches a plan until a human approves it.

Federal · liveIRS & SSA figures, traced to source
State · 50rates, brackets, conformity
NCAA · revenue sharecap, classification, clearinghouse
Human-approvedevery change reviewed before it's live