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...like Treasury Secretary Donald Regan (once a financier), Internal Revenue Commissioner Roscoe Egger (an accountant) and former Assistant Treasury Secretary John Chapoton (a lawyer), who in past incarnations tried to exploit tax loopholes and shelters for moneyed clients, have taken the case for Uncle Sam. They are now troubadours for the national purpose through tax reform, and they have captured the patriotic fervor of Ronald Reagan. One of the reasons that the President agreed to switch the portfolios of Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker was to get maximum horsepower behind his drive for tax reform...
...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...
...dubious honor, Egger makes $70,800 a year and has the odd pleasure of living all the time among the tax tables. He loves it. He is one of the world's great orderers, sorters and Roscoe Egger waiting for returns storers of paper, and the IRS process ranks
among the top challenges to modern computer designers. Though IRS woes are well catalogued, less understood is the fact that the U.S. tax system remains the most efficient of any major society's, costing only 470 to raise each $100. Egger hopes that in a year or two all forms will be read by optical scanners and instantly checked, a development that may terrorize the wicked into righteousness...