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          seventy five percent” of an investor’s tax savings, while the               
          other twenty-five percent of the tax savings is “a thirty percent           
          return on investment.”  This arrangement purportedly provided               
          protection to investors:  “If the cows do die and the sky falls             
          in, you have still made a return on the investment, and no matter           
          what happens you are always better off than if you paid taxes.”             
          After an explanation of the tax benefits, the document asked:               
          “Now, can you feel good about not paying taxes, and feeling like            
          you were not, somehow, abusing the system, or doing something               
          illegal?”                                                                   
               A section of the “1,000 lb. Tax Shelter” document that was             
          devoted to a discussion of audits by the IRS, stated that the               
          partnerships would be “branded an ‘abuse’ by the Internal Revenue           
          Service and will be subject to automatic” and “constant audit”.             
          Statements in the document compared the IRS to children, stating            
          that IRS employees did not have the “proper experience and                  
          training” and “working knowledge of concepts required by the                
          Internal Revenue Code” to evaluate the partnerships.  In a                  
          section of the document titled “Tax Aspects”, the following                 
          “warning” was given:                                                        
               Out here, tax accountants don’t read brands, and our cowboys           
               don’t read tax law.  If you don’t have a tax man who knows             
               you well enough to give you specific personal advice as to             
               whether or not you belong in the cattle business, stay out.            
               The cattle business today cannot be separated from tax law             
               any more than cattle can be separated from grass and water.            
               Don’t have anything to do with any aspect of the cattle                






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