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

Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders ...

A surprise move by the IRS that would allow pastors to back political candidates from the pulpit without losing their ...

The IRS says pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit should not have to risk losing their tax-exempt status.

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

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

The IRS now says that, actually, nothing that happens at church or through a church’s “usual channels of communication on matters of faith” can violate the Johnson Amendment.

The move effectively calls for a carve-out for religious organizations from the rarely used IRS rule called the Johnson Amendment, put in place in 1954 and named after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson.

The IRS made the statement in a court case challenging the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 U.S. tax code provision that prohibits all 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organizations — including churches — from ...

The document points to numerous nonprofits that are allowed to opine on political candidacies even as churches remain barred ...

The judgement stops the IRS from enforcing the Johnson Amendment, which the IRS describes as a "ban on political campaign activity by charities and churches" that was created by Congress over 50 ...