Nebraska Farm Bureau president: Biden administration not sensitive to agriculture

Published September 29, 2021 12:00am ET



The Biden administration’s proposed American Families Plan would fund improvements in education, child care, health care and family leave through a series of tax hikes, including raising the capital gains tax.

One proposal that would affect farmers in particular would eliminate the so-called “stepped-up basis” that calculates capital gains taxes on inherited property based on its value when the owner died, not on the amount they paid for the property years earlier.

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