Word: egger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind-set of America has changed since World War II," says Roscoe Egger Jr., 62, a former lawyer who has been commissioner of the IRS since...
...Each time the IRS or Congress develops a method of slowing or halting some objectionable shelter practice," says IRS Commissioner Egger, "promoters and/or investors find some way around it-essentially jumping over the roadblocks. At first, promoters were only stretching the law, now they're openly breaking...
...leaves little in the way of a recorded paper trail. Peter Gutmann, an economics professor at New York City's Baruch College and a close student of the subject, puts the figure at about $420 billion in 1981, or 14% of the official gross national product. Roscoe Egger Jr., commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, told a Senate Finance subcommittee two weeks ago that the loss in tax dollars due to the underground economy came to some $97 billion last year, more than twice the level of 1976. Others within the IRS believe that even that stunning estimate...
...years later, on scholarship to the august Berlin Academy of Music, he lived on yogurt so he would not have to skimp on his record collection. Production-assistant jobs around various Munich recording studios kept him in curds and vinyl until he met up with Karl Egger, a burly purveyor of discount audio and records. Egger suggested to Eicher that they record displaced American jazzmen who had fled the rock-dominated music biz back home for the burgeoning jazz scene in Munich. "It was an era," Eicher recalls, "when the new artists were there to be grabbed...
...Egger bankrolled, Eicher produced, and in 1970 the first record on ECM was pressed: Free at Last by the superb pianist Mai Waldron. Only 500 copies of the record were originally turned out, but 14,300 eventually sold. Now an initial ECM pressing averages 10,000 albums for its established acts and 6,000 for the three or four unknowns it introduces every year...