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Area Accountant Desires Government Job More Than Porn Star Wife
Last summer, you may remember hearing about an accountant in Florida who was fired from his job as Town Manager of Fort Myers Beach because his wife was a porn star.
At the time we wondered how an injustice of this magnitude could occur in this great land of ours. If an accountant can’t marry a porn star and be a public servant, is this really the country we want to live in?
Despite that setback for FREEDOM, Scott Janke – the accountant and husband of porn star in question – is trying to become the City Manager of Flager Beach, FL and he has supporters stating that he’s the best man for the job, so on and so forth.
However, Janke’s supporters aren’t concerned that the porn star wife (which they say wasn’t an issue to being with) and Hustler pinup – Anabela Mota Janke, aka Jazella Moore (most definitely NSFW) – will not be a problem this go round because Janke and Jazella are separated.
“I think that he’d be a really good city manager,” Flagler Beach Commissioner Jane Mealy said. She said Janke’s wife’s profession wouldn’t factor into her decision.
“As far as I’m concerned, it has no impact,” Mealy said.
Mealy predicted that “by next week, people will have forgotten” about any controversy surrounding Janke.
Maybe that’s because Janke said Tuesday that he and his wife are separated.
Now you could debate the pros and cons of dating a porn star until Jenna Jameson comes home but in this particular case, Janke really sounds like he wants to be a City Manager/Planner. Janke must have figured that he didn’t have to settle for a woman with D-level acting skills and a D-cup rack when he could have a whole city on its knees.
He’s an accountant; she’s a porn star. And their life’s no bed of roses. [FloriDUH]
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The TaxMasters Guy Has Some Sage Advice on IRS Correspondence Audits
The advice was so good he had to send out a press release:
On the heels of a record reporting year for taxes, taxpayers should be wary – or at a minimum more informed – about audits from the IRS, according to Patrick Cox, CEO of TaxMasters (TAXS), the leading tax compliance and repayment services provider in the nation. According to Cox, the IRS will send out a record number of audits which can be misleading and even wrong.
“Over the past few years the IRS has been shifting gears to use correspondence audits – notices mailed to taxpayers usually showing an alleged discrepancy in a tax filing and asking for a manageable amount of extra money that is owed,” Cox said. “From my experience, most taxpayers – who did their taxes online or had an accountant or friend do them – are scared of the IRS and don’t know enough about their tax filings to argue the audit. Instead of making sure the IRS assessment is accurate, I think most taxpayers just cut a check.”
The latest Taxpayer Advocate Report showed that of the more than 1.6 million Americans who were audited last year, 78 percent received a correspondence audit, while only 22 percent were selected for an in-person examination. A large majority of the correspondence audits are sent due to unqualified or overstated tax deductions.
“Returns claiming tax deductions are the lowest hanging fruit for the IRS in a correspondence audit,” says Cox. “Unfortunately, there are an alarming number of taxpayers that make simple mistakes on the amount of deductions and types of deductions they make and wind up being easy targets for the IRS. A few examples of typically-encountered discrepancies include unreported pension income, home mortgage interest, and cash charitable contributions.”
Conveniently, the Journal of Accountancy also covered the increase in IRS correspondence audits in its August 2011 issue and offers tips on how to manage them for CPA tax practioners.
According to a 2006 report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), there has been a 170% increase in correspondence examinations for individual taxpayers with gross incomes or business receipts of at least $100,000 in fiscal years 2002 through 2005, while face-to-face examinations increased by 25%. Since that report, TIGTA has claimed improvements in this area but identifies work yet to be done.