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                  State of $2,880.38, and the last one is 15-A10,                     
                  which has to do with payments directly to New                       
                  York State of $5,337.57.  The checks are in this                    
                  file, Your Honor.                                                   

                  Petitioner claims an offset to income or a deduction                
             for payments made in 1989 in the amount of $31,856.70                    
             allegedly on behalf of Ms. Margaret Lynch.  His testimony                
             regarding those payments is as follows:                                  

                       The next item is number 22-4.  Again, these                    
                  are all within file 16-J, having to do with the                     
                  taxpayer Margaret Lynch, and I paid $75-–$75.01                     
                  to the State of Rhode Island on her behalf, for                     
                  a tax problem.                                                      
                       In items 23, I paid the IRS, Internal                          
                  Revenue Service, directly, $10,831.50 on her                        
                  behalf.  Item 24, I paid the Internal Revenue                       
                  Service $3,930.09 on her behalf.  Items 4-23 and                    
                  24 are direct checks to either Rhode Island or                      
                  the Internal Revenue Service.                                       
                       In addition, items 30(a) and 30(b) are                         
                  direct wires or returns of funds to Margaret                        
                  Lynch, as agreed upon, in the amounts of $5,010,                    
                  in the instance of 30(a), and in the instance of                    
                  30(b), $12,010.  Margaret Lynch, in 1989, paid                      
                  me fees-–and these were all, as I say, agreed                       
                  upon and accepted.  Margaret Lynch paid me fees                     
                  of $5,159 and also in that period, her sister,                      
                  Jeanne Lynch, who is a client and had an                            
                  influence over her or their opinion of me                           
                  counted, they spoke quite frequently, paid me                       
                  fees of $400 in 1989 and in 1990, paid me fees                      
                  of $16,961.                                                         
                       Again, I believe these offsets-–there's two                    
                  components of the offsets here.  One is money                       
                  given directly back to the client, which I                          
                  consider to be return of fees, and the other is                     
                  expenses that I paid directly for the client,                       
                  that would be items 24, 23 and 24, and the two                      





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