There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...

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

In 2024, two churches and a religious organization filed a lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), claiming that ...

In a proposed legal settlement, the Internal Revenue Service has agreed that it will abandon enforcement of longstanding ...

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 American Humanist Association said it was “discouraged, but ultimately not surprised” by the decision in a July 8 statement. “The Johnson Amendment, though weakened over the years by lax ...

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

The decades-old Johnson Amendment does not apply to speech by houses of worship to its congregation through “customary channels of communication,” the IRS said in a July 7 court filing in the ...