The rule was introduced by former President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1954 when he was serving as the U.S. Senate majority leader.

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

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

A 2019 survey by Pew Research found that 76% of Americans and 70% of Christians say clergy should not endorse candidates from ...

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 ...

Although seldom enforced, The Johnson Act has long been a source of tension between religious groups and federal regulators.

The IRS said in a court filing that churches whose pastors endorse political candidates from the pulpit shouldn't lose their ...

To settle a case challenging the Johnson Amendment, the IRS has proposed to allow at least two churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit.

You want a service from the government, you pay for it. But taxation with conditions of behavior attached is worse than theft ...

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

Comparing it to a family discussion, the Internal Revenue Service agreed on Monday that pastors and other religious leaders can endorse political candidates to their congregation without threatening ...

The IRS reversed decades of legal precedent in a July 7 court filing by saying that churches and other religious 501c(3) organizations can endorse political candidates in certain circumstances.. The ...