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Spokesperson claims IRS has ‘halted’ audits of churches engaging in political activity

Russell Renwicks, a manager in the IRS Mid-Atlantic region, recently said that the IRS has halted any audits of churches engaging in political activity, a violation of nonprofit tax law, according to the Associated Press. IRS spokesperson who works on large tax-exempt groups, Dean Patterson, said his colleague “misspoke,” but…