Rolling back the Johnson Amendment

Have you ever donated to a church or other charity? Then, know it or not, you’ve been impacted by the Johnson Amendment. Passed over 70 years ago, this amendment to the tax code has been used to silence churches, nonprofits, and other charitable organizations. And Congress is considering a bill that may just help.

The Johnson Amendment is the very definition of arbitrary and capricious. It was introduced by a United States Senator to protect his own re-election campaign. It was targeted not only at the non-profit organizations, some of whom were impacting Johnson’s campaign, but also at religious and other organizations. And the language was so vague as to have allowed decades of churches, charities, libraries, and educational non-profits to work in fear that simply saying the wrong thing could not only deprive them of their tax-exempt status, but also the donations that are frequently given because of that status. That alone should be sufficient reason to simply rescind the amendment.

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