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          previously allowed amortization deductions, as respondent                   
          contends.                                                                   
                                  FINDINGS OF FACT                                    
               Some of the facts have been stipulated for trial pursuant to           
          Rule 91.  The parties' stipulations of fact are incorporated                
          herein by reference and are found as facts in the instant case.             
               Petitioners Bill L. and Patricia M. Spencer (collectively,             
          the Spencers), husband and wife, resided in Roswell, Georgia, at            
          the time they filed their petition in the instant case.                     
          Petitioners Joseph T. and Sheryl S. Schroeder (collectively, the            
          Schroeders), husband and wife, resided in Melbourne Beach,                  
          Florida, at the time they filed their petition in the instant               
          case.  Sheryl Schroeder is the daughter of the Spencers.                    
          Background                                                                  
               Mr. Spencer graduated from Ohio University during 1966 with            
          a major in accounting and minors in finance and taxation.  While            
          living in Columbus, Ohio, he worked as a cost accountant for                
          several companies.  During 1966, he moved to Miami, Florida,                
          where he worked as an accountant for an accounting firm, doing              
          primarily audit work and tax return preparation.  By 1968, Mr.              
          Spencer began working as the comptroller for a real estate firm             
          known as the Alan Morris Co. (Alan Morris), where he later became           








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