Word: egger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan has no such problem with Roscoe Egger, commissioner of Internal Revenue, the man who gathers 75% of the nation's money. In an Administration that often is all thumbs, some of them sticky, Egger is squeaky clean. Over the past three years, a few obtuse White House aides have called up for a little inside information. Egger has reminded them of the Watergate days, and the inquiries dried up instantly. In an Administration that can't seem to manage a peace-keeping force or a budget, Egger is transforming tax administration against terrible odds...
...Under Egger the short form really is short...
...toughness has helped to slow those tax-protest groups that refuse to file. Cheaters and finaglers still abound; hiding income and dreaming up new evasions and shelters, they will rob the country of $90 billion or more this year. They are still gaining on Egger, but he believes that with more simplification and computerization he can one day hold...
...represent investments of an estimated $50 billion and can cost the Government billions of dollars annually in uncollected revenue. They help swell the federal deficit, enrich tax lawyers and arouse the ire and envy of less-well-to-do taxpayers. Asked what his four biggest problems are, Roscoe L. Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, is fond of saying, "Tax shelters, tax shelters, tax shelters and tax shelters...
...such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacked Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, Alexander Ivanovich Dorogo-kupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued by police and ushers. Said Doro-gokupetz: "I vowed...