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One of the most common varieties of income-tax fraud, Andrews found, is listing nonexistent dependents. In an effort to stop this, he is asking for more specific information on dependents, hopes to prosecute a well selected list of dependent-creators. To catch all kinds of evasion, he hopes to triple the comparatively small percentage of returns that are audited.
A Jeffersonian Democrat of Senator Harry Byrd's school, Andrews, who abhors bureaucracy and high taxes, is an unlikely man to be running a big bureau to collect high taxes. But he believes that he can serve his principles by running an efficient bureau. Until he had reached middle age, even after he became an eminent C.P.A. in Richmond, Va., Andrews wanted to be a surgeon. Now that he is taking the fat (and quite a chunk of the lean) out of 60 million taxpayers' incomes, he feels that he has attained his goal in a different way. Says he: "This is deep surgery."