Ranking Member Boozman leads letter requesting evidence to support claim that only two percent of farm estates will be impacted
Republican members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry are calling on U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to make public a detailed explanation and any supporting economic analyses that clarifies how the Biden administration’s proposed tax increases will affect farm estates. U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), the committee’s ranking member, authored a letter to Secretary Vilsack that questions the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) analysis of President Joe Biden’s proposed changes in capital gains tax rates and the modification to stepped-up basis on America’s family farms and ranches.The letter, which was signed by seven other Republican senators who serve on the committee, specifically asks the secretary to explain of how USDA arrived at the conclusion 98 percent of farm estates will not be impacted by the proposed tax changes.
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