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            medical payments made by Dreyer Farms pursuant to its medical                               
            plan (the insurance premiums and other medical care expenditures)                           
            are excludable from the Weeldreyers’ gross income under section                             
            105(b).                                                                                     
                  Section 162(a) permits a taxpayer to deduct all ordinary and                          
            necessary expenses incurred during the taxable year in carrying                             
            on the taxpayer’s trade or business.  An expense is ordinary if                             
            it is customary or usual within a particular trade, business, or                            
            industry or relates to a transaction “of common or frequent                                 
            occurrence in the type of business involved.”  Deputy v. du Pont,                           
            308 U.S. 488, 495 (1940).  An expense is necessary if it is                                 
            appropriate and helpful for the development of the business.  See                           
            Commissioner v. Heininger, 320 U.S. 467, 471 (1943).                                        
                  When payments for medical care are properly excludable from                           
            an employee’s income because they are made under a “plan for                                
            employees”, they are deductible by the employer as ordinary and                             
            necessary business expenses under section 162(a).  Sec.                                     
            1.162-10(a), Income Tax Regs.  Consequently, Dreyer Farms is                                
            entitled to deduct the insurance premiums and medical                                       
            reimbursement payments under section 162(a).                                                












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