IRS Suffers Another Setback in Effort to Conduct Audit of a Minnesota Church

The Internal Revenue Service has suffered another setback in its effort to pursue an audit of a church in Minnesota in a case that has ramifications for the tax agency and churches nationwide.

A U.S. District Court judge in Minneapolis ruled that the Living Word Christian Center, in Brooklyn Park, Minn., does not have to comply with an IRS summons for information because the summons was authorized by a government official of insufficient rank.

The ruling by Judge Ann D.

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