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         receipts on the daily sales summaries.  In an interview with a               
         revenue agent, petitioner estimated that he could have                       
         understated the gross receipts for Gene’s by as much as $15,000              
         per month.  As of the time of trial, petitioner was not able to              
         produce most of the cash register tapes for Gene’s, and no                   
         records of cash balances, cash receipts, cash expenditures, or               
         inventories were maintained except for a few invoices for cash               
         purchases of inventory.  Because the records for Gene’s could not            
         be reconciled with petitioners’ income tax returns, respondent               
         reconstructed the gross receipts of Gene’s by means of the bank              
         deposits method coupled with the cash expenditures method.                   
              The bank deposits and cash expenditures methods are                     
         acknowledged methods of reconstructing income.  See Parks v.                 
         Commissioner, supra; Nicholas v. Commissioner, 70 T.C. 1057, 1065            
         (1978).  Respondent’s bank deposits analysis reflects that                   
         petitioners had substantial unreported income from Gene’s                    
         business operations during 1991 and 1992.  Gene’s was                        
         petitioners’ only source of business income.  Respondent’s agent             
         examined petitioners’ records and also performed an analysis of              
         bank deposits for the years in issue.  The bank deposits analysis            
         was accomplished by totaling the deposits made to petitioners’               


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         percentage markup method of reconstruction is one whereby an                 
         established base, such as cost of goods sold, is marked up to                
         reconstruct gross sales or gross receipts.                                   





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