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          petitioner’s Social Security number and the notation “1994 1040".           
          The $10,200 payment was applied by respondent to petitioners’               
          then outstanding 2000 tax liability.3                                       
               An administrative hearing was held on August 2, 2002.                  
          During that hearing petitioner claimed that the 1994 tax                    
          liability had been paid in full by the three checks previously              
          sent by petitioners to respondent in March 1996.  As of the date            
          of the administrative hearing, petitioners had not filed tax                
          returns for 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, or 2000.  Consequently,                 
          respondent would not consider an installment agreement with                 
          respect to petitioners’ 1994 tax liability.  Petitioners                    
          subsequently filed a tax return for each of these years.                    
               In August 2002, petitioners submitted a Form 433-A,                    
          Collection Information Statement for Wage Earners and Self-                 
          Employed Individuals.  Petitioners listed their total monthly               
          income and living expenses as $10,320 and $7,611, respectively.             
          By letter dated August 8, 2002, petitioners notified respondent             
          that the $10,200 payment made on July 25, 2001, was intended to             
          be, and should have been, applied to their 1994 tax liability.              
          Respondent subsequently took the necessary steps to apply the               
          $10,200 payment to the 1994 tax liability.                                  




               3 At the time, it appeared that petitioners’ 1994 liability            
          had been paid in full.                                                      





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