Koramba Farmers & Graziers No. 1, Dean Phillips, Tax Matters Partner, et al. - Page 8

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          (terracing), with Beltzer v. United States, 4 AFTR 2d 5595, 59-2            
          USTC par. 9701 (D. Neb. 1959) (land leveling).                              
               In 1954, Congress added section 175 to the Code, which was             
          intended to provide statutory rules under which taxpayers engaged           
          in the business of farming could "deduct certain expenditures for           
          the purpose of soil or water conservation in respect of land used           
          in farming or for the prevention of erosion of land used in                 
          farming."  S. Rept. 1622, to accompany H.R. 8300, 83d Cong., 2d             
          Sess., 216.  Until 1986, section 175 remained substantially                 
          unchanged from its original enactment in 1954, with the exception           
          of several amendments not relevant here.  Before 1986, neither              
          section 175, itself, nor its legislative history, nor the related           
          regulations, specified the locale in which the improved farmland            
          had to be situated.                                                         
               In 1991, the IRS issued Tech. Adv. Mem. 91-19-005 (Jan. 18,            
          1991) (TAM), in the first part of which the IRS concluded that              
          the partnerships' pre-1987 conservation expenditures could                  
          qualify under section 175 even if paid or incurred with respect             
          to foreign land.  As a consequence, respondent has not challenged           
          Koramba No. 1's conservation expenditures paid or incurred in               
          calendar 1986.                                                              
               Unfortunately from the partnerships' perspective, however,             
          the IRS in the TAM also took the position (which is respondent's            
          position here) that, even if a proper section 175 election had              





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