A longstanding tax exemption preventing nonprofit organizations from engaging in political campaign activity that favors individual candidates has been reinterpreted - signaling that religious ...

Just prior to Thanksgiving, arguments were heard in a Texas federal courtroom on a legal case that will, in all probability, have far-reaching ramifications on how churches and people of faith engage ...

Clergy can say whatever they want about political candidates, but taxpayers shouldn't be forced to subsidize this speech by providing tax exemptions. Clergy can say whatever they want about political ...

Following a federal judge’s dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the Johnson Amendment, the U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have announced that they plan to issue ...

In a court filing this week, the Internal Revenue Service indicated that, under most circumstances, it would not revoke a church's tax-exempt status if it violated the Johnson Amendment, a 1954 law ...

(RNS) — Now that churches have won the right to endorse political candidates, it’s fair to ask why churches would want to do that in the first place. The religious right has hoped for the repeal of ...

A new court filing reinterprets a longstanding tax law, signaling that houses of worship may now be able to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status as nonprofit ...