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          regard such issues as having been tried by consent, and they                
          shall be treated as if they had been raised in the petition.  See           
          Rule 41(b).                                                                 
               A.  Petitioners’ Liability for Unpaid Taxes                            
               For the sake of convenience, we shall assume without                   
          prejudice that petitioners may challenge the existence or amount            
          of their underlying tax liability for each of the years in issue.           
          Petitioners’ challenge, however, is to no avail because, at                 
          trial, petitioners failed to introduce any evidence whatsoever              
          that their tax liabilities were other than what they themselves             
          reported on their 1992 and 1993 Federal income tax returns.                 
               In addition, the fact that petitioners or their accountant             
          may have disposed of all of their records for 1992 and 1993 does            
          not in any way absolve petitioners from liability for the income            
          taxes that they themselves reported on their 1992 and 1993                  
          Federal income tax returns.  If petitioners disposed of all of              
          their records before their liabilities were satisfied, then                 
          petitioners have no one to blame but themselves; if it was their            
          accountant who did so, then petitioners should look to him.                 
               It is also no excuse to profess that “I have never recieved            
          [sic] notice of this tax”.  After all, the liabilities at issue             
          are nothing other than the liabilities reported by petitioners              
          themselves on their 1992 and 1993 delinquent income tax returns.            
               Finally, we observe that the period of limitations on                  






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