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          restatement of petitioners’ argument, previously considered and             
          rejected, that respondent was required to examine their 1994 and            
          1995 records before using the net worth method to reconstruct               
          their income.  Petitioners do not identify exactly what items in            
          their 1994 and 1995 books and records might constitute a lead as            
          to potential nontaxable sources of income, and we have discovered           
          none.                                                                       
                    2.  The Private Expenditures “Lead”                               
               On brief, petitioners contend that “the Government also                
          failed to make any investigation as to whether Petitioners 1994             
          and 1995 private expenditures exceeded available declared                   
          resources.”  It is not apparent how this contention is relevant             
          to establishing any potential nontaxable sources of income or               
          otherwise refuting the results of respondent’s net worth                    
          analysis.  Petitioners do not argue, for instance, that the                 
          amounts of personal living expenses reflected in the net worth              
          analysis are incorrect.  Rather, petitioners’ contention seems              
          directed more toward questioning respondent’s reasons for                   
          undertaking a net worth analysis.  Even if we were to assume, for           
          sake of argument, that petitioners’ “private expenditures” (by              
          which we understand petitioners to mean personal living expenses)           
          did not exceed their “available declared resources” (by which we            
          understand petitioners to mean the amounts of income they                   
          reported on their tax returns), this circumstance would not tend            






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