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          closed and completed transactions, fixed by identifiable events,            
          and * * * actually sustained during the taxable year.”                      
               Petitioners argue that they are entitled to a $27,30011 loss           
          pursuant to section 165 with respect to petitioner’s investment in          
          the FoodSource program.  Respondent contends that petitioner did            
          not enter into the FoodSource program primarily for profit and              
          therefore petitioners are not entitled to the loss claimed.  See            
          Fox v. Commissioner, 82 T.C. 1001, 1021 (1984).                             
               The only evidence petitioners presented in this regard was             
          petitioner’s  blanket assertion that he possessed a profit motive           
          in entering the FoodSource investment.  We are not required to, and         
          do not, accept this blanket self-serving assertion. Petitioner              
          attempted in 1984 to recoup his lost investment from prior years.           
          He has failed to show that he entered into the FoodSource program           
          primarily for profit or that he sustained any business-related loss         
          in 1984.                                                                    
               We conclude that petitioners are not entitled to a section 165         
          deduction in 1984 for the $27,300 invested in the FoodSource                
          program.                                                                    
               To reflect the foregoing,                                              
                                                       Decision will be               
                                                  entered for respondent.             



               11   Petitioner contends that $27,300 is the amount of his             
          cash investment in the FoodSource program.                                  




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