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               Each of the policies permitted the owner to borrow generally           
          up to the amount of policy cash value, using the policy as                  
          security.  Each contract required payment of a specified rate of            
          interest on amounts borrowed, with any accrued but unpaid                   
          interest to be added to the loan and to bear interest at the same           
          rate.  Each contract provided for the termination or lapse of the           
          policy when the total loan, including unpaid interest, exceeded             
          the policy cash value (the value of the single premium                      
          accumulated with interest less certain specified charges).                  
               Because of financial hardship and in order to pay personal             
          living expenses, petitioners each borrowed the maximum allowable            
          amounts against their policies.  They each failed to completely             
          repay these loans or interest thereon, resulting in the                     
          termination of each policy in 1995.                                         
               When First Colony terminated petitioner husband’s policy,              
          his outstanding loan balance, exclusive of certain unpaid                   
          interest, was $39,403.63.  The policy had a cash value of                   
          $39,843.11, and a cash surrender value of $439.48                           
          ($39,843.11 minus $39,403.63).  Upon termination, First Colony              
          sent petitioner husband a check in the amount of the cash                   
          surrender value ($439.48).  First Colony also issued petitioner             
          husband a Form 1099-R, reflecting a taxable gain of $14,843.11,             
          which the company computed as the cash value of $39,843.11, less            
          his investment in the contract of $25,000.                                  





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