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first 3 digits of which were as follows:
Name Relationship SSN
Benjamin Vega father 551-xx-xxxx
Margarita Campos mother 455-xx-xxxx
Jose De Jesus Vega brother 570-xx-xxxx
Rafael Vega brother 548-xx-xxxx
Cleofas Gabriela Vega sister 573-xx-xxxx
Liliana Margarita Vega sister 573-xx-xxxx
Petitioner also timely filed a U.S. Individual Income Tax
Return (Form 1040) for 1997. On his return, petitioner
designated his filing status as head of household and claimed the
standard deduction in the amount appropriate to that filing
status. Also on his return, petitioner claimed his relatives
(except for Jose De Jesus Vega) as dependents. For each of his
relatives, petitioner listed a purported 9-digit SSN, the first 3
digits of which were as follows:
Name Relationship SSN
Benjamin Vega father 551-xx-xxxx
Margarita Campos mother 455-xx-xxxx
Rafael Vega brother 1456-xx-xxxx
Cleofas Gabriela Vega sister 573-xx-xxxx
Liliana Margarita Vega sister 573-xx-xxxx
1 Eight of the 9 digits of the purported SSN for Rafael Vega
on the 1997 return were different from the purported SSN for
Rafael Vega on the 1996 return. This discrepancy is unexplained
in the record.
According to the Office of the Regional Commissioner of the
Social Security Administration in Richmond, California, each of
the seven different purported SSNs listed by petitioner on his
1996 and 1997 tax returns for his relatives is a validly assigned
Social Security number, but it belongs to someone other than
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