A reinterpretation of a tax rule signals that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without ...

The Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders can endorse political candidates to ...

By interpreting political discussions during worship as private conversations, the IRS creates a loophole that will lead to ...

In court filings Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...

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

President Trump praised the IRS decision allowing church pastors to endorse political candidates.The president said he thin ...

Although the IRS recently allowed religious organizations to address their faithful about electoral politics, the Church will ...

The Internal Revenue Service makes a potentially landmark policy shift: churches can endorse political candidates from the ...

On July 7, the IRS stated in a new court filing that churches can endorse political figures without risking its tax-exempt status.

The Johnson Amendment doesn’t prohibit ministers from engaging in politics. But it conditions tax exemption on refraining from doing so, just as it does for all other tax-exempt organizations.

The IRS said that religious leaders could endorse political candidates in churches and other religious centers without losing their tax-exempt status — carving out an exemption from a decades-old tax ...