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          time the return was due, he believed he was not required to file            
          tax returns or pay taxes because money he received for his labor            
          was a nontaxable exchange of equal value.1  Petitioner, however,            
          did timely file a tax return for taxable year 2001.  Based on a             
          Form 1099 issued to petitioner by Lauren’s Cycle Sales, Inc. for            
          taxable year 2000, respondent determined a $9,378 deficiency in             
          tax and additions to tax pursuant to sections 6651(a)(1) and                
          6654(a) in the amounts of $2,3452 and $504.39, respectively, and            
          sent petitioner a notice of deficiency on April 7, 2004.                    
          Respondent computed the deficiency using the tax rates under                
          section 1(c) for an unmarried individual who is not a head of               
          household.  Petitioner timely petitioned this Court contending:             
          “I do not have any tax liability.  I deny the figures and content           
          of the Notice of Deficiency.  I dispute the computations.  In the           
          year in question I had dependents, deductions, credits, business            
          expenses, etc.  Local taxes, interest, dependent son.”                      


               1We note that petitioner has previously appeared before this           
          Court.  In docket No. 19512-03L, a case in which we entered oral            
          findings of fact and opinion pursuant to sec. 7459 and Rule 152,            
          petitioner contended, among other frivolous contentions, that he            
          did not owe taxes for taxable year 1993 because respondent sent             
          the notice of determination to a “straw man” when respondent used           
          all capital letters to spell petitioner’s name.  Petitioner                 
          subsequently had a change of heart regarding the tax laws and               
          started filing returns, beginning with taxable year 2001.                   
               2The addition to tax pursuant to sec. 6651(a)(1) determined            
          in the notice of deficiency was originally, and incorrectly,                
          calculated as $3,704.31.                                                    





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