Florida houses of worship can now endorse political candidates in some cases, an exception created by the IRS recently.

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.

So why, citing religious freedom concerns, did the IRS advance an interpretation of the law that allows churches to do just ...

When you donate or pledge money to a religious institution, Uncle Sam does not take a bite of that cash. For years, the ...

I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of jeopardizing my church’s tax exempt status that kept me quiet. It was fear of God ...

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 ...

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

The majority of the Founders ... were determined to prevent the official establishment of any single national denomination or ...

The Johnson Amendment has been used to chill free speech in churches. The IRS finally changed the rule in a recent decision.

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

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