- 12 - household expenses. Harvey simply refused to discuss finances with petitioner, and systematically excluded her from his business affairs, at least the business affairs which he conducted after he left Dreyfus in 1971, well before the relevant years. Whatever petitioner spent to indulge her own taste for art and afford herself a few small luxuries, she paid for out of her own meager earnings. She in fact gave Harvey money to pay "IRS taxes" out of money she received from her father, and used additional funds from that source to rehab the smaller house into which petitioners were forced to move after tax deficiencies required them to sell their larger, more comfortable house in Hewlett Park. (3) Nothing in the record would lead one to believe that petitioners' lifestyle was lavish either before, during, or after the relevant years. While petitioner conceded that Hewlett Bay Park is considered to be a wealthy area, she also testified that the couples' house on Piermont Avenue was at the "low end". We perceive no reason to question the truthfulness of her testimony on this point, and respondent's counsel did not challenge it. (4) Harvey and his friend, Kreindler, repeatedly kept from Arlene the truth about the tax shelter deductions that were being claimed on the couple's returns for the relevant years, and systematically refused to explain the returns to Arlene or givePage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Next
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