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          $21,250, petitioner used $2,776.45 of the credit in 1982,                   
          carried back unused credit in the amounts of $1,476, $3,402, and            
          $3,532 to 1979, 1980, and 1981, respectively, and carried                   
          forward additional unused credit in the amounts of $3,693 and               
          $3,191.28 to 1983 and 1984, respectively.  Petitioner had                   
          $3,179.27 of unused investment tax credit to carry over into                
          later years.  Additionally, on his 1983 tax return petitioner               
          deducted $2,750 in distribution costs relating to the                       
          Southampton investment.                                                     
               Petitioner's 1982 tax return was prepared by an accounting             
          firm, Chaness and Simon, and signed by a representative of that             
          firm on April 10, 1983.  Petitioner provided the accounting firm            
          with the Southampton promotional booklet and an investment tax              
          credit election statement that he had received from Southampton             
          for use in preparing his 1982 return.  Petitioner presumably                
          provided the same documents to Ramona Henderson, a C.P.A. who               
          petitioner claims prepared his 1983 tax return after petitioner             
          provided "receipts and information on all investments to her and            




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          documents as independent appraisals or as indications of his                
          expected economic benefit from the investment is misplaced as the           
          appraisals were commissioned by and addressed to Southampton and            
          were furnished to petitioner several months after petitioner made           
          his investment in Southampton and after his 1982 tax return was             
          filed.                                                                      




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