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1964 and an M.B.A. in taxation from New York University School of
Business Administration in 1973. He passed the certified public
accountancy test in 1967 and was the winner of the gold medal,
awarded for achieving the highest score on the examination for
that year. Since early 1966, Becker has practiced as a C.P.A.
exclusively in the tax area. From 1964 until 1972 he worked for
the accounting firm of Touche, Ross & Co., and in 1972 he joined
the accounting firm of Richard A. Eisner & Co. as the partner in
charge of the tax department. In 1977, Becker founded Becker Co.
Becker had considerable experience involving tax shelter
transactions before he organized the SAB Recycling Partnerships.
He prepared opinions regarding tax shelters' economic and tax
projections, advised individuals and companies with respect to
investments in tax shelters, lectured extensively about tax
shelter investments generally, and lectured and published with
respect to leveraged tax shelters. Becker described a leveraged
tax shelter as "a transaction where [the ratio of] the effective
[tax] writeoff, which includes the value of the tax credit, * * *
[to the amount invested] exceeds one to one." Becker Co.
specialized in tax-advantaged investments. From 1980 to 1982,
approximately 60 percent of the work done by Becker Co. involved
tax sheltered and private investments. Becker has owned minority
interests in general partners of numerous limited partnerships.
Prior to organizing the SAB Recycling Partnerships, Becker owned
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