Places of worship could lose tax-exempt status if found in violation of the Johnson Amendment, but the IRS has largely shied away from enforcing it. The 1954 Johnson Amendment, named for then ...

Named after President Lyndon B. Johnson, the amendment prohibits all 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations—like churches, where contributions are tax-deductible—from supporting or opposing ...

One way he said he’d do this is by trying to “permanently” do away with the so-called Johnson Amendment, a provision of the U.S. tax code aimed at preventing charity groups and churches ...

(RNS) — The federal lawsuit, filed by the National Religious Broadcasters, is the latest challenge to the so-called Johnson Amendment ... along with two Baptist churches and a conservative ...

Now close to the year's end, the FFRF has filed complaints to the IRS regarding Pastor Howerton's Lakepoint Church and two other Texas churches for allegedly violating the Johnson Amendment.