Violence against IRS workers poses 'challenges' for tax collection

A federal watchdog testified Wednesday that physical violence against IRS employees remains elevated, and is threatening the ability of the IRS to collect taxes.

“In the last several years, threats directed at the IRS have remained the second largest component of the Office of Investigation’s work,” J. Russell George, inspector general for Tax Administration at the Treasury Department, said in a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.