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                                                                  Penalties                                                                   
                Year             Deficiency                       Sec. 6662(a)1                     Sec. 6663(a)                              
                1989             $522,221                         $104,444                          $391,666                                  
                1990             334,663                          66,933                            250,997                                   
                1991             109,047                          21,809                            81,785                                    
                1992             103,224                          20,645                            77,418                                    

                1   The sec. 6662(a) accuracy-related penalties were determined                                                               
                as an alternative to the sec. 6663(a) fraud penalties.                                                                        
                         Subsequently, by an amendment to answer, respondent asserted                                                         
                increased deficiencies and penalties for 1989 and 1991, as follows:                                                           
                                                                  Penalties                                                                   
                Year             Deficiency                       Sec. 6662(a)                      Sec. 6663(a)                              
                1989             $877,054                                  1                        $657,791                                  
                1991             153,214                                   1                        114,911                                   
                1  20 percent of the underpayment to which this section applies.                                                              
                         After concessions by each party, the issues remaining for                                                            
                decision are:  (1) The value of shares of stock of Williamsburg                                                               
                Vacations, Inc. (WVI), awarded to Kay F. Gow (800 shares on                                                                   
                February 16, 1989, and 400 shares on February 15, 1990) as bonuses;                                                           
                (2) whether WVI’s payments of travel and entertainment expenditures                                                           
                for certain trips taken by petitioners constitute constructive                                                                
                dividends to them; (3) whether WVI’s payments of expenditures for                                                             
                the procurement of an animal trophy collection constitute                                                                     
                constructive dividends to petitioners; and (4) whether petitioners                                                            
                are liable for fraud penalties pursuant to section 6663(a), or in                                                             
                the alternative, accuracy-related penalties pursuant to section                                                               
                6662(a).                                                                                                                      






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