Pastors Double-Dare the IRS | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction: A 1984 federal ruling told the IRS it needed a regional commissioner to sign off on any audits done on churches. But when the IRS reorganized in 1996, it eliminated the regional commissioner position. A Minnesota church recently argued that its IRS audit wasn't authorized by a high-enough official. In January, a federal court agreed.
Until the IRS sorts out who can authorize church audits, churches are left in limbo, said Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) senior legal counsel Erik Stanley. "It has become an intolerable system of self-censorship," he said.
"Society labels biblical issues as political, and pastors just back away."'via Blog this'
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