Charles R. Harp and April B. Harp - Page 20

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                              On the record before us, we further find that the foregoing                                                                                  
                    amounts of unreported income remaining in dispute for 1989 and                                                                                         
                    1990 consist of the following items and amounts:12                                                                                                     
                                                                                            1989                                      1990                                 
                    Amounts of deposits in the notice                                                                                                                      
                    that remain in dispute                                                                                                                                 
                    (1)  Deposits of (a) K & H's                                                                                                                           
                              construction loan proceeds,                                                                                                                  
                    checking account funds, and                                                                                                                            
                              credit line funds and (b) Ms.                                                                                                                
                              Velilla's construction loan                                                                                                                  
                    proceeds and checking account                                                                                                                          
                    funds  . . . . . . . . . . . .  $90,666.35     $60,168.06                                                                                              
                    (2)  Miscellaneous deposits . . . .   83,364.00      41,583.71                                                                                         
                    Amount of the Kabeiseman loan                                                                                                                          
                    proceeds deposited during 1989 and                                                                                                                     
                    not repaid as of Dec. 31, 1990, that                                                                                                                   
                    respondent contends is income from                                                                                                                     
                    the discharge of indebtedness . . . .       --        19,310.20                                                                                        
                    Amounts of unreported income                                                                                                                           
                    remaining in dispute  . . . . . . . .  174,030.35    121,061.97                                                                                        
                    Preliminary Matters                                                                                                                                    
                              Respondent used the bank deposits method to reconstruct                                                                                      
                    petitioners' income for the years at issue.  "A bank deposit is                                                                                        
                    prima facie evidence of income and respondent need not prove a                                                                                         
                    likely source of that income."  Tokarski v. Commissioner, 87 T.C.                                                                                      


                    12  A review of the parties' briefs leads us to conclude that,                                                                                         
                    despite certain errors that we found in the stipulations and                                                                                           
                    briefs, the parties nonetheless agree that the two broad catego-                                                                                       
                    ries of deposits that remain in dispute are the two identified                                                                                         
                    below by the Court and that there also is a dispute regarding                                                                                          
                    whether the $19,310.20 of Kabeiseman loan proceeds that was not                                                                                        
                    repaid as of the end of 1990 constitutes income to petitioners                                                                                         
                    for that year.                                                                                                                                         




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