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Ian Bushfield - August 12th, 2008 in
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Supposedly some clergy are feeling pressure from the IRS to not endorse any candidates in this fall’s presidential election.
A balance between religion and politics, and if a church falls off the beam they may be hearing from the Internal Revenue Service.
That’s because church leaders say the agency can remove it’s tax exempt non-profit status.
The IRS says it will investigate a church’s tax status if it’s “carrying on an unrelated trade or business.”
It’s hard to know whether what the clergy are saying is actually true in the congregations, or outside of sermons though.
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