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          3306(i) provides that the term “employee” has the meaning                   
          assigned to such term by section 3121(d).                                   
               Section 31.3121(d)-1(b), Employment Tax Regs., which is                
          applicable to chapter 21 of subtitle C, provides in relevant part           
          as follows:                                                                 
                    Generally, an officer of a corporation is an                      
               employee of the corporation.  However, an officer of a                 
               corporation who as such does not perform any services                  
               or performs only minor services and who neither                        
               receives nor is entitled to receive, directly or                       
               indirectly, any remuneration is considered not to be an                
               employee of the corporation. * * *                                     
          See also sec. 31.3306(i)-1(e), Employment Tax Regs., for the same           
          provision applicable to chapter 23 of subtitle C.                           
               In the present case, Mr. Barron was the only C.P.A. who                
          performed services for petitioner, and indeed, Mr. Barron was the           
          only individual who performed professional services for                     
          petitioner.  Further, as petitioner’s president, Mr. Barron                 
          exercised exclusive authority over all of petitioner’s affairs,             
          and he was the individual who was solely responsible for making             
          management decisions and for controlling and directing every                
          facet of petitioner’s business.  Under these facts, it is clear             
          that Mr. Barron is not excluded from the general rule of sections           
          31.3121(d)-1(b), and 31.3306(i)-1(e), Employment Tax Regs., that            
          a corporate officer is an employee.  See secs. 3121(d)(1),                  
          3306(i).  We hold, therefore, that as a corporate officer who               
          performed substantial services for petitioner, Mr. Barron is an             






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