December 11, 2008
Ruling Could Make It Harder for IRS to Audit Religious Groups
In the latest skirmish over how much authority the government has in regulating houses of worship, a federal court in Minnesota may have given religious institutions across the nation a new defense against potential audits by the Internal Revenue Service.
United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey J. Keyes last month rejected an effort by the IRS to force a church in the Minneapolis suburbs to turn over its records for an audit, ruling that the agency violated a 1984 law that was designed
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