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A sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington DC, United States, on May 28, 2025. (STR/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
July 8, 2025, 5:52 pm
Reversing decades-old ban, US tax agency says clergy may endorse political candidates
IRS reverses policy while settling lawsuit brought by two churches, Christian broadcasting network, that sought to undo endorsement ban for all nonprofit entities
By PHILISSA CRAMER
People gather to protest the banning of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace at Columbia University on November 20, 2023, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images via AFP)
May 14, 2024, 6:12 pm
Republican senators demand IRS investigate sponsor of Students for Justice in Palestine
Lawmakers suggest that by directing money to organizations that have explicitly voiced support for Hamas, nonprofits are supporting terrorism
By Luke Tress
Prison guards escort Yosef Haim Ben-David, convicted of murdering Palestinian teenager Muhammad Abu Khdeir in 2014, as he arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem for his appeal, on February 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 4:00 pm
Probe finds group supporting Jewish extremists in Israel now also fundraising in US
Money raised by Shlom Asiraich as a nonprofit is going toward families and prisoners, including Rabin’s assassin and two men convicted of murdering Palestinians
By Tia Goldenberg and Uri Blau in partnership with Shomrim
Former President Donald Trump speaks at Mar-a-Lago, November 18, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)
November 23, 2022, 12:49 am
US Supreme Court clears way for release of Trump’s tax returns to Congress
After three-year legal battle, Democrat-controlled Ways and Means Committee to access records in final weeks before Republicans take control of House in January
By Mark Sherman
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, left, smile during a one year anniversary event for her Be Best initiative in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 7, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
May 8, 2019, 1:53 pm
Trump tax forms show $1.17 billion business loss over decade — report
NYT releases information from US president’s 1985-1994 tax records, says he ‘appears to have lost more money than nearly any other individual American taxpayer’
By AP
US President Donald Trump speaks during an announcement at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 12, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
April 14, 2019, 3:00 am
Trump has 10 days to turn over tax returns, Democrats say
Mnuchin says demand amounts to ‘enormous precedent in potentially weaponizing the IRS,’ administration will respond by deadline as legal showdown looms
By AFP
Former IRS commissioner Sheldon Cohen. (YouTube screenshot via JTA)
September 7, 2018, 9:42 am
Sheldon Cohen, commissioner who computerized IRS, dies at 91
A lifelong Washingtonian, Cohen was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson after helping him with his personal business affairs
By JTA
US Department of Justice building in Washington, DC (Roman Babakin/Getty Images)
February 3, 2018, 5:54 am
DOJ settles with pro-Israel group for delay in its tax exempt status
While mum on the settlement’s details, Justice Department says it includes apology from IRS to Z Street
By JTA
Screen capture from a promotional video about Soupman. (YouTube/OriginalSoupMan)
May 24, 2017, 8:19 am
CFO of Soup Nazi-inspired company indicted
Broth producers, who marketed items based on oppressively strict Seinfeld character, accused on tax charges
By AP
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Rose Garden of the of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, asking the IRS to use "maximum enforcement discretion" over the regulation, known as the Johnson Amendment, which applies to churches and nonprofits (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 5, 2017, 1:20 am
ADL slams Trump’s order on religious freedom while OU commends it
Jewish civil rights group says measure is troubling as Orthodox Union praises president for upholding religious freedom for all Americans
By ToI Staff and AP
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Rose Garden of the of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 4, 2017, asking the IRS to use "maximum enforcement discretion" over the regulation, known as the Johnson Amendment, which applies to churches and nonprofits (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
May 4, 2017, 8:58 pm
Trump signs executive order on religious freedom
President limits IRS action over church political activity, overturns ban on electioneering from the pulpit, allows church healthcare providers to not pay for contraception
By Catherine Lucey and Rachel Zoll
Family members of then-Republican president-elect Donald Trump, (from L-R) wife Melania Trump, daughter Ivanka Trump and sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. as they listen to the second presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, October 9, 2016. (AFP/Tasos Katopodis/File)
December 23, 2016, 11:44 am
Jewish charities benefit as Eric Trump Foundation flouts standards to favor pet projects
Son of president-elect directing donations to NGOs connected to family, including organizations backed by Ivanka
By JEFF DONN
In this Oct. 28, 2016 file photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire. (AP/Evan Vucci)
November 1, 2016, 6:07 am
Trump used dubious $900m tax dodge in 1990s – report
GOP candidate may have canceled hundreds of millions in debt over failed casino empire by trading it for ‘partnership equity’
By AP
Advertisement for Kars4Kids (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 19, 2016, 5:40 pm
Staten Island synagogue feuds with Kars4Kids entity
Congregation claims in court that outreach organization is channeling funds through the temple to avoid public scrutiny
By JTA
Former mayor of New York CIty Rudy Giuliani arrives with his wife Judith for the presidential debate between Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
October 2, 2016, 10:24 pm
Giuliani: Trump a ‘genius’ for not paying taxes, would be ‘better for US than a woman’
Mocking her for not making it ’15 feet to her car,’ GOP nominee mimics Clinton’s near-faint at 9/11 memorial
By AP and ToI Staff
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