Comments on: Franken’s accountant didn’t just fall off turnip truck http://www.hjblogs.com/frankens-accountant-didnt-just-fall-off-turnip-truck/ HJblogs.com Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:06:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Dennis Paulson http://www.hjblogs.com/frankens-accountant-didnt-just-fall-off-turnip-truck/#comment-545 Dennis Paulson Sat, 31 May 2008 06:39:56 +0000 http://www.hjblogs.com/frankens-accountant-didnt-just-fall-off-turnip-truck/#comment-545 I'm afraid it's not quite a simplistic as either of you make you out to be. Al Franken's disputed taxes do NOT come from any taxes on his personal income he may have earned in other states. Rather, it came from a confluence of often obscure state and local laws that define what an "employee" is in various jurisdictions, and when an "employer" is required to make FICA and other tax payments into the state and local tax authorities on behalf of those employees. Whether Chanzis has 18 years or 180 years of experience representing the entertainment industry is irrelevant. It does nothing to sort out the convoluted tax laws across the country. Yes, it's his "job" to sort out those laws on behalf of his clients. But if you can honestly state that you've never made a single mistake in YOUR job, then you have a right to be critical. Besides, Al Franken has already made the required restitution to the taxing authorities, so lighten up. I’m afraid it’s not quite a simplistic as either of you make you out to be. Al Franken’s disputed taxes do NOT come from any taxes on his personal income he may have earned in other states. Rather, it came from a confluence of often obscure state and local laws that define what an “employee” is in various jurisdictions, and when an “employer” is required to make FICA and other tax payments into the state and local tax authorities on behalf of those employees.

Whether Chanzis has 18 years or 180 years of experience representing the entertainment industry is irrelevant. It does nothing to sort out the convoluted tax laws across the country. Yes, it’s his “job” to sort out those laws on behalf of his clients. But if you can honestly state that you’ve never made a single mistake in YOUR job, then you have a right to be critical.

Besides, Al Franken has already made the required restitution to the taxing authorities, so lighten up.

]]> By: The Lady Logician http://www.hjblogs.com/frankens-accountant-didnt-just-fall-off-turnip-truck/#comment-414 The Lady Logician Wed, 07 May 2008 14:20:44 +0000 http://www.hjblogs.com/frankens-accountant-didnt-just-fall-off-turnip-truck/#comment-414 Just to clarify....I am not an accountant, but in the post you referred to I quoted an accountant who, in a column on The American Thinker, detailed out the tax law and stated that Chanzis, as an 18 year veteran of entertainment tax accounting, does not seem to be the kind of accountant to make those kinds of rookie mistakes. LL Just to clarify….I am not an accountant, but in the post you referred to I quoted an accountant who, in a column on The American Thinker, detailed out the tax law and stated that Chanzis, as an 18 year veteran of entertainment tax accounting, does not seem to be the kind of accountant to make those kinds of rookie mistakes.

LL

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