Woman Suspended For Tax Form Humor

[lizbud]

I think it's funny. If ever there's a time for humor it tax time.


MIDDLETOWN, Ohio Feb 3, 2005 — The city's tax superintendent has been suspended without pay for a week for trying to inject some humor in the city income tax filing instructions.

The forms with such lines as, "If we can tax it, we will," were sent last week to all Middletown businesses and residents who pay city income tax.

The attempt at humor by Linda Stubbs was called "misguided" by city Finance Director John Lyons.


Lyons said revised forms were sent out immediately at a cost to taxpayers of about $5,500.

Among the lines that city officials didn't think were very funny was this one:

"Free advice: if you don't have a profit in a five-year period, you might want to consider another line of work."

Middletown is about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati.

[ramanth]

[Vio&Juni]

[RICHARD]

It's understood
By every single person
Who'd be elsewhere if they could
So far so good
And life's not unpleasant
In their little neighbourhood

They dream in Middletown...

-np

[Cincy'sMom]

I have some friend's in Middletown....I'll have to see if they got the instrcutions!!

[smokey the elder]

I think the real problem was having to waste (taxpayers'!!) money doing the form. There are other ways to do spoofs which are harmless (photocopied flyers, web page.)

[Twisterdog]

This so sounds like something I would do. I used to always get yelled at by the president of a board of directors I was on, when I was secretary, for putting similar remarks in the board minutes. I thought it was funny. He, apparently, had no sense of humor.