Nov 27, 2017 ... Estate taxes can also threaten the transfer of farmland between farmers and  ranchers. As farmers consider retirement, they set the selling price of land or  other assets high enough to recover the cost of capital gains taxes. This  increases the likelihood farmland may be developed for other uses because few  ...
Nov 15, 2017 ... Getting rid of the estate tax is a gift to the very rich, not to farmers. As the old  saying goes, ask a farmer what they would do if they won a million dollars: Keep  farming till it ran out. While estate taxes are not a threat to the family farm, we face  plenty of other challenges. But you'll never see politicians tackle the ...
Sep 28, 2017 ... Farm groups campaign perennially against the estate tax, which they say is a  threat to the survival of the family farm because a farmer's heirs might have to sell  part, or all, of the farm to pay the tax. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association  applauded the proposal for “a full repeal of the onerous death tax.
Sep 22, 2017 ... The site features California rancher Kevin Kester, who comes from a line of  farmers in the state. Kester says that "trying to figure out how to pass the ranching  operation to the next generation" is "the greatest challenge that keeps him up at  night." The implication is that a tax on his estate would hurt his family ...
Sep 20, 2017 ... It never happens, says the man who wrote the book on estate-tax planning. ...  decades of my adult life, I have always been puzzled by the constant crusade  against the estate tax (which repeal supporters have re-branded as the “death tax ”) as one of the largest supposed threats facing family farm survival.
Says the estate tax is a threat to family farms.