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The impact of a new Internal Revenue Service rule that enables churches to endorse candidates from the pulpit without ...
Churches can speak about candidates from the pulpit without risking their nonprofit status, the IRS said in a court filing ...
In court filings Monday, the IRS has largely backed down on a decades-old rule that barred churches from engaging in ...
The agency's agreement in a court filing formally reverses a decades-old provision of the tax code, but the motion would need ...
Since 1954, the IRS has banned nonprofits — including congregations — from participating in political campaigns.
We also know that not everyone connects to politics the same way. The HIT Strategies poll found that those in Detroit who ...
By allowing houses of worship to endorse candidates, despite federal tax law, the IRS is “fixing” a problem that doesn’t ...
Churches and other houses of worship registered as tax-exempt nonprofits can endorse political candidates to their ...
The IRS said in a court filing that churches whose pastors endorse political candidates from the pulpit shouldn't lose their ...
The Internal Revenue Service argued that internal church discussion regarding electoral politics don't "run afoul of the ...
Two churches and a religious group sued the IRS in 2024, saying their First Amendment rights were violated by the ban on ...
The change in IRS code came after a lawsuit tried to challenge the Johnson Amendment, a longstanding principle of separation ...