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When you donate or pledge money to a religious institution, Uncle Sam does not take a bite of that cash. For years, the ...
Repealing a 71 year-old law, the IRS is now allowing churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status after a federal ...
There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...
A tax law professor discusses the IRS stance that allows churches to endorse candidates and whether the LDS Church would ever ...
As socially-engaged New York City faith leaders who for decades have preached “with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper ...
The majority of the Founders ... were determined to prevent the official establishment of any single national denomination or religion.
Many people don’t want their religious leaders to tell them how to vote. In the current deeply divided political moment, that ...
Ohio churches are having mixed reactions to news that the Internal Revenue Service will relax enforcement of the ban on ...
Last week, the IRS said it wants to do away with a 71-year-old prohibition barring churches from endorsing political ...
In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...
There is nothing preventing the IRS from deciding to enforce the Johnson Amendment again and perhaps doing so selectively.
For more than 70 years, federal law has prohibited pastors, priests, rabbis, and imams from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit. Now the IRS is letting it be known that it has no intention ...