Charles R. Harp and April B. Harp - Page 31

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                    the parties stipulated as follows:                                                                                                                     
                              24.  Petitioners made the following paryments [sic] in                                                                                       
                              1989:                                                                                                                                        
                                                  $474,467.56                   Payments to Corporation                                                                    
                                                  6,584.06                      Payments of Corporate Expenses                                                             
                                              *     *     *     *     *     *     *                                                                                        
                              27.  Petitioners made the following payments in 1990:                                                                                        
                                                  $52,462.00                    Payments to Corporation                                                                    
                                                  3,693.40                      Payments of Corporate Expenses                                                             
                    Under the foregoing unqualified stipulations, the parties have                                                                                         
                    agreed that during 1989 and 1990 petitioners made payments to, or                                                                                      
                    on behalf of, K & H in the amounts of $481,051.62 and $56,155.40,                                                                                      
                    respectively.                                                                                                                                          
                              On brief, petitioners appear to maintain that the foregoing                                                                                  
                    stipulations set forth the minimum payments that they made and                                                                                         
                    that they made additional payments during those years to, or on                                                                                        
                    behalf of, K & H and Ms. Velilla that increased the aggregate                                                                                          
                    amounts of such payments for 1989 and 1990 to $529,023.92 and                                                                                          
                    $89,643.25, respectively.19  To support their contention, they                                                                                         
                    rely on (1) petitioners’ schedules of expenses and (2) Ms. Harp's                                                                                      
                    testimony.  Respondent disputes petitioners' contention.                                                                                               


                    19  Contrary to petitioners' position on brief, petitioner testi-                                                                                      
                    fied that the aggregate amount of the deposits into petitioners'                                                                                       
                    accounts during each of the years at issue of K & H's funds and                                                                                        
                    Ms. Velilla's funds were used to make payments to, or on behalf                                                                                        
                    of, K & H and Ms. Velilla.  We question the reliability of that                                                                                        
                    testimony.  Petitioner's testimony on that point also is incon-                                                                                        
                    sistent with petitioners' schedules of expenses that purport to                                                                                        
                    show that only a portion of those deposits were used to make                                                                                           
                    payments to, or on behalf of, K & H and Ms. Velilla.                                                                                                   




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