It also became one of the rare cases of the IRS enforcing the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 provision of the U.S. tax code that ...

Notwithstanding the consent decree, it's an open question whether the US Supreme Court would go along with voiding the ...

Free speech doesn’t stop at the church door,” writes former Broward GOP executive director Lauren Cooley. The IRS’ recent ...

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

Thanks to the ACLJ’s advocacy, pastors can now speak freely from the pulpit about political candidates without fear of IRS ...

The Internal Revenue Services is reversing a long-standing policy and will now allow religious institutions to endorse ...

As if everyday life in these United States wasn’t politicized enough, your local house of worship could soon become a part of ...

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

The IRS rarely enforced the rule. During President Trump's first term, he promised to "get rid of and totally destroy the ...

Despite the IRS lifting its ban on churches endorsing political candidates, I still won’t be. Because it wasn’t fear of ...

On Monday the IRS released a court filing reinterpreting the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits any tax-exempt nonprofit ...