- 8 - Betty Drummond received wage income of $27,115.37 during 1983, which was community property, one-half of which is includible in Mr. Drummond's income for 1983. During 1984, Mr. Drummond and Ms. Drummond had a joint Merrill Lynch account from which they received interest income during that year in the amount of $2,899, one-half of which is interest income to each of them for that year. During that year, Mr. Drummond also received interest income in the amount of $241 from the Bank of San Diego. Betty Drummond filed for divorce from Mr. Drummond in 1984. On October 5, 1984, a bifurcated judgment of dissolution of the marriage of Mr. Drummond and Betty Drummond was issued. On July 16, 1985, a final judgment of dissolution of that marriage was entered. Pursuant to the property settlement agreement incident to that divorce, Betty Drummond was awarded $21,890 of precious metals. Mr. Drummond, who has knowledge of tax matters and was capable of correctly preparing and filing his own returns for 1983 and 1984, prepared his returns for those years and filed them around September 19 and October 17, 1985, respectively. Mr. Drummond reported gross receipts in Schedule C of his 1983 return in the amount of $70,020. Those gross receipts consisted of $42,000 that Mr. Drummond received from ABC and $28,020 that he received from other clients during 1983. Mr. Drummond did notPage: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Next
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