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          Revenue Code applicable to the relevant years.  Rule references             
          are to the Tax Court Rules of Practice and Procedure.                       
                                  FINDINGS OF FACT                                    
               The parties have stipulated some of the facts.  We                     
          incorporate herein by this reference the parties’ stipulation of            
          facts and the exhibits submitted therewith.  We find the                    
          stipulated facts accordingly.  Petitioner is a well-educated man            
          whose college degrees include a bachelor’s degree in electrical             
          engineering (telecommunications), a master’s degree in business             
          administration (business management), and a doctor’s degree in              
          electrical engineering.  He resided in Vienna, Virginia, when his           
          petition was filed.  He filed 1994 and 1995 Federal income tax              
          returns using the filing status of “Married filing separately”.             
               During the subject years, petitioner worked full time for              
          GTE, Inc. (GTE), as a director of research and the manager of its           
          research and development facility in Waltham, Massachusetts                 
          (Waltham).1  He generally worked for GTE a minimum of 40 hours              
          per week, staying at his residence in Waltham during the week               
          (unless away from Waltham traveling on GTE business) and staying            
          at his wife’s principal residence in Vienna, Virginia, on the               




               1 GTE paid to petitioner in each of the subject years a                
          salary of approximately $200,000.  In part because of his                   
          supervisor’s perception that petitioner worked “long hours” for             
          GTE during the subject years, petitioner was later promoted to              
          vice president.                                                             




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