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                          Additions to Tax              Penalties                                         
            Sec.              Sec.           Sec.       Sec.                                              
            Year     Deficiency     6653(a)(1)(A)2    6653(a)(1)(B)     6661       6662                   
            1986      $64,061          $3,203               1         $16,015       --                    
            1987       48,593           2,430               2           9,713       --                    
            1989       26,496            --                --             --      $5,299                  
            1990       12,425            --                --             --       2,485                  
            1991       41,064            --                --             --       8,213                  
            1992       55,580            --                --             --      11,116                  
                  1 Fifty percent of the interest due on $64,061                                          
                  2 Fifty percent of the interest due on $38,853.                                         

                  After concession by respondent of an issue raised on behalf                             
            of petitioners at trial,3 the issues for decision are:                                        
                  (1) Whether losses sustained by petitioner Edward Kelly                                 
            (Mr. Kelly) in trading stock options should be characterized as                               
            ordinary or capital losses.  We hold that they were capital                                   
            losses.                                                                                       
                  (2) Whether brokerage commissions earned by Mr. Kelly in                                
            connection with his stock option trades may be treated as an                                  
            offset against the amount of his trading losses rather than as                                
            ordinary income, and whether brokerage commissions paid by                                    
            Mr. Kelly in connection with his stock option trades are                                      




            2Unless otherwise indicated, section references are to the                                    
            Internal Revenue Code in effect for the years at issue, and all                               
            Rule references are to the Tax Court Rules of Practice and                                    
            Procedure.                                                                                    
            3Respondent conceded that petitioners were entitled to                                        
            deduct gambling losses in an amount equal to their gambling                                   
            winnings for 1986, pursuant to sec. 165(d).                                                   





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