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in situations in which there are arguably two grounds to support
a deficiency and one supports a section 6659 addition to tax and
the other does not, the taxpayer may still be liable for the
addition to tax. Gainer v. Commissioner, 893 F.2d at 228; Irom
v. Commissioner, 866 F.2d 545, 547 (2d Cir. 1989), vacating in
part T.C. Memo. 1988-211; Harness v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo.
1991-321.
In the present cases, no argument was made and no evidence
was presented to the Court to prove that disallowance and
concession of the claimed investment tax credits and other tax
benefits related to anything other than a valuation
overstatement. To the contrary, petitioners each stipulated
substantially the same facts concerning the Partnership
transactions as we found in Provizer v. Commissioner, supra. In
the Provizer case, we held that the taxpayers were liable for the
section 6659 addition to tax because the underpayment of taxes
was directly related to the overvaluation of the Sentinel EPE
recyclers. The overvaluation of the recyclers, exceeding 2325
percent, was an integral part of our findings in Provizer that
the transaction was a sham and lacked economic substance.
Similarly, the records in these cases plainly show that the
overvaluation of the recyclers is integral to and is the core of
our holding that the underlying transactions here were shams and
lacked economic substance.
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