Notwithstanding the consent decree, it's an open question whether the US Supreme Court would go along with voiding the ...

It also became one of the rare cases of the IRS enforcing the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 provision of the U.S. tax code that ...

To settle a case challenging the Johnson Amendment, the IRS has proposed to allow at least two churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit.

The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...

As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...

Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders can endorse political candidates to their congregation without threatening ...

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

The IRS said in a court filing that churches whose pastors endorse political candidates from the pulpit shouldn't lose their ...

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

The Internal Revenue Services is reversing a long-standing policy and will now allow religious institutions to endorse ...

The IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates during services should not risk losing their tax-exempt status.