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          Olympic coin program.  PB&T offered to split commissions with               
          petitioner for orders placed by petitioner's members.  Neither              
          PB&T nor petitioner received any money from Universal Coins under           
          the Olympic coin program.                                                   
          I.   Direct Mail & Computer Services Letter                                 
               In September 1991 (after the years in issue), Chuck Smith              
          (Smith), president of Direct Mail & Computer Services, sent the             
          following letter to petitioner:                                             
               Gentlemen:                                                             
               I am in receipt of your request concerning name list                   
               rental rates during the period of 7/88-6-89.  Rental                   
               rates for nonprofit institutions have remained static                  
               for several years, including the period in question, at                
               $60.00/m names rented with a $5.00/m surcharge for                     
               sortation to the zip code level.  This is essentially a                
               universal price which is heavily documented throughout                 
               the list rental industry in such publications as                       
               Standard Rates and Data, etc.                                          
          J.   Petitioner's Federal Tax Returns                                       
               Petitioner timely filed Forms 990, Return of Organization              
          Exempt from Income Tax, and Forms 990-T, Exempt Organization                
          Business Income Tax Return, for the years in issue.                         
               On its Forms 990 for the years in issue, petitioner reported           
          that PB&T had paid it the following amounts of royalties:                   
          $74,703 for 1989, $105,797 for 1990, and $114,364 for 1991.                 
          Petitioner did not report these amounts as unrelated business               
          taxable income on the Forms 990-T that it filed for those years.            
          Petitioner reported that it had received $2,500 of advertising              
          income for 1989, $2,500 for 1990, and none for 1991.  On its                




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