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 ...

The new IRS interpretation came after decades of debate and, most recently, lawsuits from the National Religious Broadcasters ...

Donald Trump has endorsed the IRS's recent decision to allow houses of worship to endorse political candidates without ...

The IRS says pastors endorsing political candidates during services should not 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 document points to numerous nonprofits that are allowed to opine on political candidacies even as churches remain barred ...

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 ...