The 1954 Johnson Amendment (the law barring all nonprofit organizations like churches from engaging in partisan politics) has ...

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

There’s only one known instance of a church losing its tax-exempt status because it violated the Johnson Amendment, but ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday welcomed the Internal Revenue Service's decision that houses of worship could ...

IRS repeal of church political restrictions energizes GOP strategies but alienates the faithful who value spiritual over ...

The agency's agreement in a court filing formally reverses a decades-old provision of the tax code, but the motion would need ...

President Donald Trump praised the IRS decision permitting churches to endorse political candidates, saying it allows them to ...

The IRS now allows churches to support political candidates without losing tax-exempt status, raising both praise and ...

The IRS announced churches can endorse political candidates through an exemption in the Johnson Amendment. The announcement ...

IRS says it will no longer penalize houses of worship for endorsing political candidates during religious services, as long ...

Two East Texas churches, Sand Springs Church in Athens and First Baptist Church Waskom, were among the plaintiffs in the ...