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          $190,791, and $166,208, respectively.  Petitioner failed to file            
          timely Federal income tax returns or pay taxes due for his                  
          taxable years 1983 through 1987.                                            
               Petitioner was convicted of and incarcerated for willful               
          failure to file Federal income tax returns for 1986 and 1987.               
          Petitioner’s supervised release from prison was revoked because             
          of his continuing failure to file returns in accord with an order           
          of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.                      
               Beginning in 1980, petitioner used as his bank the National            
          Commodity Exchange, operated by Larry Dale Martin to hide his               
          financial transactions from the Internal Revenue Service.3  In              
          addition, petitioner failed to maintain complete and accurate               


               3 Larry Dale Martin has been described as “a ‘banker’ for              
          tax protesters” as follows:                                                 
               Under the name of the National Commodity Exchange * * *                
               [Larry Dale] Martin offered to buy gold and silver                     
               coins and bullion for the accounts of persons                          
               distrustful of Federal Reserve notes and desiring                      
               maximum privacy in their financial dealings, and also                  
               to convert gold and silver in the depositors’ accounts                 
               into paper money and at the depositor’s direction pay                  
               his bills with the paper money.  The agreements with                   
               the depositors stated that in buying gold and silver                   
               for their accounts and in paying their bills Martin was                
               ‘acting only as an agent for the above specific                        
               purpose[s] and no other.’ The agreements also contained                
               Martin’s pledge not to divulge any information about                   
               the agency accounts.                                                   
          Commissioner v. Hendrickson, 873 F.2d 1018, 1021-1022 (7th Cir.             
          1989), revg. and remanding T.C. Memo. 1983-560.  Several opinions           
          contain conclusions and/or findings that the National Commodity             
          Exchange’s purpose included the above-described privacy and                 
          “banking” services without a paper trail.  See, e.g., Grandbouche           
          v. Commissioner, 99 T.C. 604, 606-607 (1992).                               




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