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                                       OPINION                                        
               The parties agree about the substance and requirements of              
          section 483.  Their sole disagreement is whether the first                  
          installments (the July 2, 1984, installments) were due more than            
          6 months after the date of sale pursuant to a contract containing           
          unstated interest and requiring payments more than 1 year after             
          the sale.  In essence, the question is whether, in each instance,           
          a sale occurred during December 1983.  If the sales occurred in             
          December 1983, petitioners will be successful; if the sales                 
          occurred later (less than 6 months before the first installment),           
          respondent prevails, and petitioners are not entitled to deduct             
          interest under section 483.5                                                
               In Williams v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 1992-269, affd.                


               5For the period under consideration, sec. 483(a) treated as            
          interest an amount determined by means of a statutory formula and           
          applied to the principal payments on a pro rata basis.  See sec.            
          1.483-1(a)(1), Income Tax Regs.  Amounts so allocated (as imputed           
          interest) were deductible by a cash basis taxpayer in the year in           
          which payment was made.  If the taxpayer was on the accrual                 
          method of accounting for tax purposes, then the deduction was to            
          be claimed in the year in which the payment became due.  Sec.               
          1.483-2(a)(1)(ii), Income Tax Regs.  Interest imputed under sec.            
          483 was treated as interest "for all purposes of the Code."  Sec.           
          1.483-2(a)(1)(i), Income Tax Regs.  Sec. 483, with certain                  
          exceptions set forth in sec. 483(d), applies                                
               to any payment on account of the sale or exchange of                   
               property which constitutes part or all of the sales                    
               price and which is due more than 6 months after the                    
               date of such sale or exchange under a contract * * *                   
               under which some or all of the payments are due more                   
               than 1 year after the date of such sale or exchange                    
               * * * [Sec. 483(c).]                                                   




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