A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without ...

By interpreting political discussions during worship as private conversations, the IRS creates a loophole that will lead to ...

The new IRS interpretation came after decades of debate and, most recently, lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters ...

In court filings July 7, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

President Trump praised the IRS decision allowing church pastors to endorse political candidates.The president said he thin ...

Although the IRS recently allowed religious organizations to address their faithful about electoral politics, the Church will ...

The Internal Revenue Service makes a potentially landmark policy shift: churches can endorse political candidates from the ...

On July 7, the IRS stated in a new court filing that churches can endorse political figures without risking its tax-exempt status.

The Johnson Amendment is a 1954 law signed by then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower and named for then-Texas Sen. Lyndon Johnson.

The Johnson Amendment is part of the tax code, so to completely remove it would take an act of Congress. Advertisement “If he ‘totally destroys’ the Johnson Amendment, ...

Instead of trying to repeal the amendment, legislators appear to be targeting it through a spending bill that says the IRS can’t use funds to investigate a church for breach of the Johnson ...

Seventy-one years later, the Johnson Amendment still has a grip on pastors and nonprofit leaders who fear losing their tax-exempt status. Though this is certainly not an excuse to stay silent, it ...