The Washington Post, October 21st, 1999
Roscoe Lynn Egger Jr., 79, an Internal Revenue Service commissioner during the Reagan administration, died after heart surgery Oct. 14 at the Mayo Clinic. He lived in Green Valley, Ariz. Mr. Egger, a partner in the national accounting firm Price Waterhouse before and after his IRS service, headed the agency during one of its rockiest periods. IRS computers were unable to cope with the increase in the number of filings, and a deficit-conscious Congress changed the tax codes four times. Problems hit a peak in 1985, when the IRS lost millions of returns and took far longer to process refunds than...
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