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          acting in his official capacity, in performing a ministerial act,           
          and (2) any tax payment to the extent that any error or delay in            
          the payment is attributable to the employee’s error or dilatory             
          conduct in performing a ministerial act.3  Under section 6404(e),           
          an error or delay is taken into account only if no significant              
          aspect of the error or delay can be attributed to the taxpayer              
          and only after respondent has contacted the taxpayer in writing             
          with respect to the deficiency or payment.  See sec. 6404(e)(1);            
          sec. 301.6404-2T(a)(2), Temporary Proced. & Admin. Regs., 52 Fed.           
          Reg. 30162 (Aug. 13, 1987); see also Krugman v. Commissioner, 112           
          T.C. 230, 238 (1999).                                                       
               We have jurisdiction to decide this case because petitioner            
          made a claim to abate interest under section 6404(e)(1),                    
          respondent issued a final determination disallowing petitioners’            
          claim after July 30, 1996, and petitioners timely filed a                   
          petition to review the failure to abate interest.  See sec.                 
          6404(g)(1);4 Rule 280; Krugman v. Commissioner, supra at 239.               



               3In 1996, sec. 6404(e) was amended by sec. 301 of the                  
          Taxpayer Bill of Rights 2 (TBOR 2), Pub. L. 104-168, 110 Stat.              
          1452, 1457 (1996), to permit respondent to abate interest                   
          attributable to “unreasonable” error or delay resulting from                
          “managerial” and “ministerial” acts.  The new provision applies             
          to interest accruing with respect to deficiencies or payments for           
          tax years beginning after July 30, 1996.  The amended provision             
          is not applicable here.  See Woodral v. Commissioner, 112 T.C.              
          19, 25 n.8 (1999).                                                          
               4Sec. 6404(g) was added to the Code by TBOR 2 sec. 302(a),             
          110 Stat. 1457-1458.                                                        





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