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                                                                                    Adjusted           
                  Wages and      Horse activity  Dog activity    Antiques activity  gross              
            Year  other income1 income (loss)    income (loss)   income (loss)      income             
            1987     $76,516     ($12,918)       ($1,099)        ($11,359)          $57,090            
            1988      78,008     (21,675)        (816)           1,945              58,882             
            1989  92,893         (28,223)        236             9,209              57,430             
            1990  124,663        (53,037)           (316)        (7,491)            66,208             
            1991  141,724        (55,843)        N/A             (7,126)            81,205             
            1992  148,169        (70,598)        N/A             (5,886)            73,434             
            1993  171,379        (64,886)           N/A          N/A                81,076             
            1994  205,580        (66,880)           N/A          N/A                140,806            
            1995  159,117        (51,175)        N/A             N/A                109,309            
            1996  139,049        (56,853)           N/A          N/A                92,794             
            1997  165,083        (60,663)        N/A             N/A                115,982            
                  1Includes income from all other sources except the horse activity and the            
            dog breeding and antiques ventures.                                                        
            Notice of Deficiency                                                                       
                  Following an examination of petitioners’ Federal income tax                          
            returns for 1991, 1992, and 1993, respondent issued a notice of                            
            deficiency in which he determined that (1) petitioners’ horse                              
            activity in those years was an activity not engaged in for profit                          
            under section 183 and expenses claimed with respect to the horse                           
            activity were disallowed, except as allowed by section 183(b), (2)                         
            petitioners had failed to report commission income of $28,000,                             
            (3) computational adjustments to petitioners’ itemized deductions                          
            were required because of the preceding adjustments, and (4)                                
            petitioners were liable for the negligence prong of the accuracy-                          
            related penalty under section 6662(a).                                                     
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