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          undertakings to provide Endotronics with management services and            
          necessary financing.6                                                       
               5.  If the 3- and 6-year periods of limitation on assessment           
          have expired on respondent’s right to take the actions described            
          in any or all of the foregoing questions, would respondent still            
          have any arguably valid grounds for taking any such actions                 
          against petitioner and/or petitioner’s controlling person or                
          persons, as might be shown to be appropriate?  Cf. Burke v.                 
          Commissioner, 105 T.C. 41 (1995), with Zackim v. Commissioner,              
          91 T.C. 1001 (1988), revd. 887 F.2d 455 (3d Cir. 1989).                     
               This is a fully stipulated case that was submitted without a           
          trial pursuant to Rule 122, and with only one round of                      
          concurrently filed briefs.  Included in the stipulated record,              
          apparently at petitioner’s request, is the Debtor’s                         
          [Endotronics’s] Amended Disclosure Statement, which contains the            
          plan of reorganization above referred to.  Petitioner’s Proposed            


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          presented by the example is how the $8 million of consideration             
          is to be allocated between the preferred and common stock.                  
               6 Petitioner’s undertaking to provide necessary financing,             
          as well as management services, would appear to cause the shares            
          allocable to that undertaking to be treated as a commitment fee,            
          included in the gross income of the recipient as compensation for           
          services at the time of accrual or receipt.  See Rev. Rul. 70-              
          540, 1970-2 C.B. 101 (issue 3), declared obsolete on another                
          issue by Rev. Proc. 94-29, 1994-1 C.B. 616, 621; see also                   
          Chesapeake Fin. Corp. v. Commissioner, 78 T.C. 869, 879 (1982);             
          Metropolitan Mortgage Fund, Inc. v. Commissioner, 62 T.C. 110,              
          120 (1974).                                                                 





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