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                    So for these taxable years like 1999, 2000, I’ve                  
               estimated about 40 percent of the space--40 percent as                 
               I had put in my returns--was basically used for                        
               business purposes.  So it’s here I have been like                      
               allocating a certain amount of money, loaning money to                 
               the S corporation--around like $35,000 a year--to pay                  
               for the equipment and for the bond, so basically                       
               accumulation of the capital.                                           
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                    So I had to amortize my expenditures:  Masters,                   
               Ph.D., and the B.S., which they run approximately                      
               $150,000.  What you do, of course, when you have a                     
               capital expenditure you don’t deduct it.  That’s an                    
               expense, which basically you amortize it a minimum of                  
               60 months over five year period.                                       
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                    I put about what, $10,000 a year, basically for                   
               future medical bills.  * * *                                           
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                    Even if I don’t provide let’s say all the Shop                    
               Right or King Supermarket receipts, all of them or the                 
               originals, still if you use the Cohan rule that’s all                  
               reasonable.  Twenty dollars a day, 30 days is $600 per                 
               month.  The same thing for electric and natural gas.                   
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                    You cannot function without eating food or without                
               electricity.  I want to mention this, I was reading, I                 
               was doing the research.  Section 262 for personal                      
               living and family expenses, this is for businesses and                 
               corporations.                                                          
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                    Anyway, I mean we’ve read the Supreme Court                       
               decisions and clearly it says that in order to have                    
               taxable income you have to receive undeniable net                      
               income, accession to wealth.  That’s net income, it’s                  
               not gross income.  It has to be clearly realized and                   





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