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T.C. Memo. 2005-13

                         UNITED STATES TAX COURT

                JOHN WESLEY WINTERS, JR., Petitioner v.
             COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, Respondent

     Docket No. 11606-03L.               Filed January 27, 2005.

     John Wesley Winters, Jr., pro se.

     J. Craig Young, for respondent.

                MEMORANDUM FINDINGS OF FACT AND OPINION

        COHEN, Judge:   This case was commenced in response to a

Notice of Determination Concerning Collection Action(s) Under

Section 6320 and/or 6330.     The notice of determination sustained

a proposed levy with respect to petitioner’s unpaid taxes for

1993.    The issue for decision is whether petitioner has shown

that his reported tax liability for 1993 was eliminated by losses
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incurred in 1994, 1995, and 1996.   Unless otherwise indicated,

all section references are to the Internal Revenue Code, as

amended.

                          FINDINGS OF FACT

     Some of the facts have been stipulated, and the stipulated

facts are incorporated in our findings by this reference.

Petitioner resided in Raleigh, North Carolina, at the time that

the petition was filed.

      On May 10, 2002, respondent sent to petitioner a

Letter 1058 (Final Notice - Notice of Intent to Levy and Notice

of Your Right to a Hearing) under section 6330 with respect to

petitioner’s Federal income taxes for 1993.   Attached to the

Letter 1058 was an account summary showing that petitioner’s

liability for 1993 consisted of an assessed balance of $6,499.97

plus statutory additions to tax (penalties and interest) of

$3,275.73, for a total of $9,775.70.   Petitioner responded to the

Letter 1058 by submitting a timely Request for Collection Due

Process Hearing (Form 12153) dated May 29, 2002.   A telephonic

hearing was held in which petitioner contended that he incurred

Schedule C, Profit or Loss From Business, losses in later periods

that he thought should offset the income from 1993 reported on

the return as filed.

     On June 17, 2003, the Office of Appeals mailed to petitioner

a Notice of Determination Concerning Collection Action(s) Under
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Sec. 6320 and/or 6330 with respect to petitioner’s Federal income

taxes for 1993.   The notice included the following statement:

     Relevant Issues Presented by the Taxpayer

     In your request for a hearing, you challenged the
     correctness of the liability by stating that you
     incurred losses in future periods that you thought
     should offset the * * * [income] from 1993. When
     questioned about this, you stated that you did not
     amend the applicable returns to compute any loss
     carrybacks, nor did you present a reasonable argument
     as to why a carryback is applicable. The service
     center received your return for tax year 1993 on
     November 10, 1997. The statute of limitations for
     amending this return has since expired, and we show no
     record that you have made any challenges to this
     liability prior to this hearing. The liability is
     comprised of original tax due with return, penalties
     and interest. No examination assessments or other
     changes to the account have been made.

                              OPINION

     At the time of trial, petitioner acknowledged that “there is

no question that the income for the period of ‘93 is an amount

that is correct.”   Petitioner contended, however, that his income

in 1994, 1995, and 1996 was “substantially lower than that in

‘93.”   Petitioner did not dispute respondent’s assertion that his

return for 1993 was filed in November 1997 and that no returns

were filed by him for the period from 1997 through 2002.

Petitioner presented no evidence concerning the manner in which

he allegedly incurred operating losses that could be carried back

to 1993.   Petitioner did not present copies of his returns for

1994, 1995, or 1996 or any other explanation of the losses that

he was claiming before, during, or after trial.   Petitioner has
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offered no explanation of why any losses that were incurred in

1994, 1995, and 1996 would not have been taken into account when

he belatedly filed, in 1997, his return for 1993.

     Petitioner has failed to show that the assessed liability

for 1993 is erroneous in any respect.     Although he claims

inability to pay the liability, he has neither offered any

collection alternatives nor complied with requirements for an

offer in compromise.   See sec. 301.7122-1, Proced. & Admin. Regs.

     On the record in this case, the notice of determination that

was sent to petitioner must be sustained.

                                            Decision will be entered

                                       for respondent.