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          position maintained by a taxpayer in the Tax Court is frivolous             
          “if it is contrary to established law and unsupported by a                  
          reasoned, colorable argument for change in the law.”  Coleman v.            
          Commissioner, 791 F.2d 68, 71 (7th Cir. 1986).  A penalty is                
          properly imposed when the taxpayer knew or should have known that           
          his claim or argument was frivolous.  See Hansen v. Commissioner,           
          820 F.2d 1464, 1470 (9th Cir. 1987).                                        
               We find that petitioner’s arguments are frivolous.  He has             
          caused this Court to waste its limited resources on his erroneous           
          views of the tax law which he should have known are completely              
          without merit.  In view of the foregoing, the Court will exercise           
          our discretion under section 6673(a)(1), sua sponte, and require            
          petitioner to pay a penalty to the United States in the amount of           
          $1,500.                                                                     
               To reflect the foregoing,                                              
                                                       Decision will be               
                                                  entered for respondent.             


















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