{"id":19276,"date":"2012-03-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/port-richey-mayor-resigns-irs-take-legal-action\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T14:34:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:34:49","slug":"port-richey-mayor-resigns-irs-take-legal-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/port-richey-mayor-resigns-irs-take-legal-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Richey Mayor Resigns, IRS to take Legal Action"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know.<\/p>\n

The mayor or Port Richey submitted his resignation after 5 years in office after receiving notice from the IRS two weeks ago that the agency plans legal action against him for allegedly under-declaring his income.<\/p>\n

Mayor Richard Rober, 52 said his resignation takes effect on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Tampa Bay Times reported that an audit on Mayor Rober took place about 2 years ago arising from the civil lawsuit brought against him by Florida Utility Group in 2009.<\/a> The lawsuit claimed that Rober siphoned off about a half million dollars of company money into a personal fund he hid from accountants, the utility and the IRS. The Florida Utility Group had bought Rober\u2019s business in 2007.<\/p>\n

Check out more Tax News<\/a> stories by clicking that link.<\/p>\n

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I hear from people every week who think their tax problem is the end of the world. It usually isn't. I'm Darrin Mish. I've resolved over $100 million in tax debt for clients. Here's what you should know. The mayor or Port Richey submitted his resignation after 5 years in office after receiving notice from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[591],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-19276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irs-news","tag-irs-audit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22163,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19276\/revisions\/22163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getirshelp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}