Sports player tax deductions!

If I need to buy myself something for work using my own money, for instance work boots or safety vests, the amount I spend is tax deductable. Now, if you look at a professional sports-person, in terms of uniforms, they won't be deducting anything clothing related as their sponsors will provide it free of charge.

If you happen to be an AFL player, you can incur fines by the tribunal, your club, or the league itself for what you do and say both on and off the field.

Alistair Clarkson, Hawthorn coach, incurred a fine for derogatory statements made after the match against umpires. (I think it was him anyway I cbf researching it.) He was fined $5000 for his statement. Although compared to his salary it's not very much, that money came out of his pocket, and therefore his income, and went in to the coffers of what's effectively a private business.

This penalty applied for what he said, however, if I said it on television, I wouldn't fined, because I don't work for a company controlled by that private sector, (the AFL).

So technically, it's a non-government penalty applied to his back-pocket, for comments he made about his work, while at work, and they were said specifically in defense of his work and colleagues.

I reckon that's a work expense, but I dunno...

Is that shit tax deductable?

Bullshit if it's not.