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 ...

A surprise move by the IRS that would allow pastors to back political candidates from the pulpit without losing their ...

The IRS says pastors who endorse political candidates from the pulpit should not have to risk losing their tax-exempt status.

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

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

In a year already chock-full of wins for conservative evangelicals in their culture wars, the Internal Revenue Service said ...

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

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 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) non-profit organizations — including churches — from ...