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                  residence so that the taxpayer’s wife who is afflicted                               
                  with heart disease will not be required to climb                                     
                  stairs.  If the cost of installing the elevator is                                   
                  $1,000 and the increase in the value of the residence                                
                  is determined to be only $700, the difference of $300,                               
                  which is the amount in excess of the value enhancement,                              
                  is deductible as a medical expense.  If, however, by                                 
                  reason of this expenditure, it is determined that the                                
                  value of the residence has not been increased, the                                   
                  entire cost of installing the elevator would qualify as                              
                  a medical expense.                                                                   
            Sec. 1.213-1(e)(1)(iii), Income Tax Regs.                                                  
                  Section 213(d)(2) provides that amounts which are not lavish                         
            or extravagant under the circumstances that are paid for lodging                           
            while away from home primarily for and essential to medical care                           
            referred to in section 213(d)(1)(A) are to be treated as amounts                           
            paid for medical care if --                                                                
                              (A) the medical care referred to in * * *                                
                        [section 213(d)(1)(A)] is provided by a physician                              
                        in a licensed hospital (or in a medical care fa-                               
                        cility which is related to, or the equivalent of,                              
                        a licensed hospital), and                                                      
                              (B) there is no significant element of per-                              
                        sonal pleasure, recreation, or vacation in the                                 
                        travel away from home.                                                         
                  The amount taken into account under the preceding                                    
                  sentence shall not exceed $50 for each night for each                                
                  individual.                                                                          
                  Mr. Mitic contends that petitioners took “deductions for                             
            medical expenditures in the past which were not challenged by IRS                          
            and have been allowed”.  Consequently, according to Mr. Mitic,                             
            this Court should allow petitioners’ claimed medical expense                               
            deduction at issue for 1993.  We disagree.  This Court is not                              






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