Tax Court agreed with Minister Phil, allowing him not only his main residence but his lake house too.
But the IRS was steamed by this, claiming the lake house was income.
Admittedly, the geek factor in Wordplay is every bit as high as the sap factor is in The Lake House.
The Tax Court ultimately ruled that Ted and Julia failed to prove their lake house had any value beyond demolition cost.
Fay has sentimental feelings towards the area since he grew up in Findlay, Ohio and his parents have a lake house in Jackson, Michigan.
Proctor sometimes visits the Rivers family at their weekend lake house.
Unlike many of the other, far more sumptuous homes that have sprouted up around it, our lake house isn't winterized and hasn't really changed since the late 1950s.
When Ted and Julia faced off with the IRS in Tax Court, the question was by how much the value of the lake house exceeded the demolition costs.
So if you're willing to indulge a sappiness factor that's off-the-charts, and you don't mind movies that just sort of tread water, The Lake House may be your kind of time-waster.
The Lake House, based on a Korean picture and directed by an Argentinean, features supporting players with a variety of intriguing accents, and it's tempting to say that something's getting lost in translation, except that we are, after all, in the Twilight Zone here, and all those different influences are more interesting than the leads are.
The 120 million square foot urban area will be built around a 2.4-mile long lake, and house up to 180, 000 inhabitants once complete.
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In 1919, at the age of 72, Bell set a marine speed record of 70.86mph on the Bras d'Or Lakes with his HD-4 hydrofoil, a replica of which resides, along with many of his personal artifacts, in the museum of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada, across the lake from his house.
Have you ever seen his gorgeous house on Lake Winnipesaukee?
Melissa Miller herself returns home every night to Christmas Lake Village, to her house on December 25th Lane.
KEYC-TV reported that Hoffner declined to answer questions from a reporter who went to his house in Eagle Lake.
Median house prices around Lake Tahoe, a ski area on the eastern border of California, have risen 60% in the past year.
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The house is on a lake in central Mississippi near the backwater-flooded Yazoo River.
Neighbors who were closer to Patty than the Paulsens reported that Miss Bianca had left her little mouse house, on a minor lake near Grand Rapids, exclusively to Walter and not to his two brothers.
In the winter, a former Olympic skater with a house in the neighborhood clears the lake for skating.
Her family had a rural house atop a small hill above a lake, surrounded by forest.
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One night, he and Suzie went out together to a party at the house of some friends, beside the lake in one of the old city parks.
In 2004 the Breauxs were driving back and forth to Lake Tahoe, where they had an old vacation house and where Mr. Breaux's company was building two houses for the daughters of a previous client.
While the comedy was shot in California, it made liberal use of props from Scranton and referenced plenty of real-life landmarks, from Cooper's Seafood House and Poor Richard's pub to Lake Wallenpaupack and the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour.
He sold a ski chalet in Utah and an expensive house outside Boston before the campaign got under way (that still leaves him with a beach-front property in California, a lake-front one in New Hampshire and a relatively modest terrace house near Boston).
First, head to the Lake District's Puzzling Place in the town of Keswick, a house of illusion that is devoted to brain teasers.
Louis, recently signed a contract to buy a three-bedroom house with a boat dock and a swimming platform on the shore of Lake of the Ozarks, a Missouri vacation spot.
Duffield left his wife and six young kids (all adopted) near Lake Tahoe in Nevada, where he thought he'd retired, and bought a house 20 minutes from PeopleSoft's headquarters (the family joined him later).
Steppingstones carved from the natural stone base of the lake lead to two concrete gazebos, which flank the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom house.
This past Fourth of July involved a neighborhood party that moved from house to house, ending with everyone watching the town's fireworks while swimming in the lake.
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