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          v. United States, 450 U.S. 1, 5 (1981).  An exclusion from gross            
          income can be found at section 104(a)(1) for "amounts received              
          under workmen's compensation acts as compensation for personal              
          injuries or sickness".  Section 1.104-1(b), Income Tax Regs.                
          interprets section 104(a)(1) to exempt amounts received under a             
          workmen's compensation act, "or under a statute in the nature of            
          a workmen's compensation act which provides compensation to                 
          employees for personal injuries or sickness incurred in the                 
          course of employment."  This exclusion has been strictly                    
          construed to conform with the general rule that all income is               
          taxable unless it is specifically excluded.  See Kane v. United             
          States, 43 F.3d 1446, 1449, 1451 (Fed. Cir. 1994);  Take v.                 
          Commissioner, 804 F.2d 553, 558 (9th Cir. 1986), affg. 82 T.C.              
          630 (1984).  "A statute will not be considered akin to a workers'           
          compensation act if it allows for disability payments for any               
          reason other than on-the-job injuries."  Haar v. Commissioner, 78           
          T.C. 864, 868 (1982), affd. 709 F.2d 1206 (8th Cir. 1983); accord           
          Take v. Commissioner, supra; Clausse v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo.            
          1995-198.                                                                   
               The pertinent language of City Code section 24-24 provides:            
                 Whenever an officer or member of the permanent                       
               police department who has not attained fifty-five years                
               of age shall become unfit to perform active duty by                    
               reason of physical infirmity or other causes, such                     
               officer or member upon the recommendation in writing of                
               the mayor, may in the discretion of the city council by                
               a majority vote of the city council, be retired from                   
               active service and placed on the pension list, and when                
               so retired he shall be paid annually from the police                   



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