IRS chief to speak about increased threats to agents on Monday

IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman on Monday will speak at the National Press Club and discuss his role at the agency.

He is expected to address the increase threats of violence towards IRS workers at the event. 

The subject was thrust into the spotlight last February after Joseph Stack, a deranged taxpayer, flew his plane into an IRS building in Texas, killing himself and one of other person. Over a dozen IRS employees were injured in the crash. 

The tragedy uncovered the fact that threats to IRS employees were on the rise. The new healthcare law has added to the problem. 

Federal investigators are looking into threats to IRS workers by taxpayers worried that the new law will be either be too expensive or too intrusive.

House Republicans recently announced the IRS would hire 16,000 workers to comply with the law's health care mandate. FactCheck.org has debunked the myth, saying the claim "stems from a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumption, and compounded by outright misrepresentation."

Shulman is expected to talk about other issues at the event as well, like how one collects $2.4 trillion in tax revenue when most taxpayers are hurting from the economic downturn.