The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to\u00a0 investigate him.<\/p>\n
\u00a0IRS AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Boat Owner: “Well, there’s\u00a0 Clarence, my deckhand, he’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board.\u00a0 Then there’s the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweiser’s every\u00a0Saturday<\/span>\u00a0night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally”.<\/p>\n \u00a0IRS AUDITOR: “That’s the guy I want to talk to – the mentally challenged one”.<\/p>\n \u00a0Boat Owner: “That would be me. What would you want to know”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to\u00a0 investigate him. \u00a0IRS AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”. \u00a0Boat Owner: “Well, there’s\u00a0 Clarence, my deckhand, he’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a … Continue reading IRS<\/span>