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          passive activities for that year.  See sec. 469(d)(1).  A passive             
          activity is a trade or business in which the taxpayer does not                
          materially participate.  See sec. 469(c)(1).                                  
               Rental activities are automatically passive (i.e., per se                
          passive), see sec. 469(c)(2), whether or not the taxpayer                     
          materially participates in the activity, see sec. 469(c)(4).                  
          However, rental activities are not per se passive in taxable                  
          years beginning after December 31, 1993, for taxpayers in the                 
          real property business (real estate professionals).  See sec.                 
          469(c)(7).2  Respondent determined, but no longer contends, that              
          petitioner is not a real estate professional under section                    
          469(c)(7)(B).3  We treat that as respondent’s concession that                 
          section 469(c)(7) applies to petitioner for the years in issue.               
               If section 469(c)(7) applies, each interest of the taxpayer              
          in rental real estate is treated as a separate activity for                   
          purposes of section 469 unless the taxpayer elects to treat all               




               2  Sec. 469(c)(7) became effective for taxable years                     
          beginning after Dec. 31, 1993.  See Omnibus Budget Reconciliation             
          Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-66, sec. 13143(a), (c), 107 Stat. 312,               
          440.                                                                          
               3  Petitioner said in his opening brief that respondent                  
          conceded that petitioner is a real estate professional for                    
          purposes of sec. 469.  Respondent did not address that issue in               
          the reply brief, and we treat it as conceded by respondent.  See              
          Burbage v. Commissioner, 82 T.C. 546, 547 n.2 (1984), affd. 774               
          F.2d 644 (4th Cir. 1985); Wolf v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo.                    
          1992-432, affd. 13 F.3d 189 (6th Cir. 1993).                                  





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