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As expected, a congressional commission studying ways to improve the Internal Revenue Service recommended a wide range of changes in the agency’s organization and operations--from placing management in the hands of an independent board to moving the traditional April 15 filing deadline back a month or more, constituting “a blueprint for ending the IRS as we know it,” the panel’s co-chairman said. . . . Frank Zarb, chairman of the National Assn. of Securities Dealers board, is expected to submit to the board today a proposal to shrink the number of directors from 47 to between 24 and 28.