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          provided by section 1016.                                                   
               Neither Ms. Schadle, Mr. Tutor, nor Mr. Johnston was aware             
          that TMC had constructed a new building on KQC’s land with HHS’s            
          grant funds.  Nor was any of them aware that KQC was reporting in           
          KQC’s 1999 return a charitable contribution in an amount equal to           
          the preliminary real estate appraisal (i.e., $1,025,000) set                
          forth in Mr. Mumford’s December 17, 1999 letter of KQC’s land,              
          the 1958 school building on that land as well as the improvements           
          thereto made by TMC, other improvements to KQC’s land made by               
          TMC, and the new building constructed on that land by TMC.                  
               Mr. Kaplan and Ms. Kaplan (collectively the Kaplans), Mr.              
          Marceron and Ms. Marceron (collectively the Marcerons), and Mr.             
          Caldwell and Ms. Caldwell (collectively the Caldwells) timely               
          filed their respective Forms 1040, U.S. Individual Income Tax               
          Returns, for 1999 (petitioners’ respective returns).  In peti-              
          tioners’ respective returns, the Kaplans, the Marcerons, and the            
          Caldwells claimed the following amounts of noncash charitable               
          contribution deductions attributable to KQC’s claiming in KQC’s             
          1999 return a noncash charitable contribution to TMC of                     
          $1,025,000:                                                                 
                                            Amount of Claimed                         
                       Petitioners       Charitable Contribution                      
                      The Kaplans                $608,850                             
                      The Marcerons              51,250                               
                      The Caldwells              364,900                              
          (We shall refer to the respective noncash charitable contribution           





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