We show that all results of Yasar and Ozer [Comput. Math. Appl. 59 (2010), 3203-3210] on symmetries and conservation laws of a nonconservative Fokker-Planck equation can be easily derived from results existing in the literature by means of using the fact that this equation is reduced to the linear heat equation by a simple point transformation. Moreover nonclassical symmetries and local and potential conservation laws of the equation under consideration are exhaustively described in the same way as well as infinite series of potential symmetry algebras of arbitrary potential orders are constructed.