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Biden plan could force thousands of family farms to sell rather than face transfer tax
https://justthenews.com ^ | By Gailon Totheroh Updated: August 19, 2021 - 10:29pm

Posted on 08/20/2021 5:50:58 AM PDT by Red Badger

Biden's proposed American Families Plan promises billions to families with children but imposes large increases in farm transfer taxes

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President Joe Biden's proposed American Families Plan promises billions to families with children. But paying for it could have a devastating impact on family farms. That's because the plan includes large increases in farm transfer taxes.

Craig Hill, the president of Iowa Farm Bureau said, as it stands, the proposal could become law with serious impact on farm families. Hill said the AFP is a major threat to passing farms to the next generation.

AFP can be contrasted with vows in the Biden administration’s Rural Plan, developed for last November’s election and published online. That document promises an approach “that partners with rural communities to invest in their unique assets, with the goal of giving young people more options to live, work, and raise the next generation in rural America – making sure the wealth created in rural America stays in rural America.”

The Rural Plan commits to “making it easier to pass farms and ranches onto the next generation.”

Hill told The Center Square that simply is not true of Biden’s proposal. The current cost of Iowa farms is inflated by easy money and the dollar value of transferred family farms could end up incurring tax far beyond families’ ability to pay.

The planned exemption for a married couple is a million dollars. Any excess would likely be taxed at about 40%. Given the average Iowa farm size of 359 acres at the current value of $7,559 per acre, that would leave the couple with $1.7 million exposed to taxes.

That amount is after the exemption is figured. The tax bill could reach as much as $680,000.

The realities of family farm business need to be figured into any proposal, Hill insists. Otherwise farm families could find themselves in a no-win situation burdened by even higher levels of debt or forced to sell.

As an example, he cites the “60% decline in the '80s of farm values.” A similar decline down the road could mean farms would have paid large tax bills based on unrealistic, inflated numbers.

In short, the variables of farm income, including perennial narrow margins and unpredictable crop yield seasons, do not appear to warrant what Hill describes as crippling taxes.

Another elected official has written an editorial adding to Hill’s and Peterson’s concerns. Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas serves as the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

The senator especially rejects imposition of capital gains taxes by changing Section 1031 of the tax code. Section 1031 permits taxpayers, including family farmers, to swap properties and defer the capital gains tax.

“Family farmers often use the 1031 exchange to invest the returns from the sale of farm assets into new farm assets of similar or greater value,” Boozman wrote in an opinion piece for the Washington Examiner.

However the president’s proposal puts a cap of $500,000 on use of Section 1031. That would restrict a 100-year-old tool used by family farms, Boozman says, “The land swap tax will dry up the farmland market, create barriers to entry for new or beginning farmers, and stunt agriculture business growth and reinvestment in much of rural America.”

So what are the chances these additional farm family taxes will make their way into law?

Peterson says the AFP would pass through the House, but not make it through the Senate when it’s business as usual.

“However, there is a danger that, with the partisanship going on in Washington, D.C., the proposal could go into a reconciliation bill without having anybody in the room who really understands the severity of this change and get passed into law,” the 30-year former Congressman worries.

For Peterson, the bottom line is maintaining the status quo, “We need to fight to keep the current estate tax system that we worked so hard to develop and convince policy makers to drop this idea of the transfer tax.”


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1 posted on 08/20/2021 5:50:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Biden’s war on the kulaks.


2 posted on 08/20/2021 5:53:23 AM PDT by Spok (Those who can compel you to believe absurdities can compel you to commit atrocities.)
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To: Red Badger

Yep… all according to plan.


3 posted on 08/20/2021 5:55:30 AM PDT by House Atreides
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To: Red Badger

Someone alert Johnny Cougar, although I still suspect he loves Biden.


4 posted on 08/20/2021 5:56:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
How else can you force someone to sell an asset they do not want to sell? Tax them to the extreme and force them to sell to the groups that want to control our food source.

They are all in this plan together.

5 posted on 08/20/2021 5:57:29 AM PDT by New Perspective (#NotMyPresident -Proud father of a son with DS & fighting to keep him off biden's death panels.)
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To: dfwgator

Why are so many musicians and actors communists?...............


6 posted on 08/20/2021 5:57:30 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Wish I knew.


7 posted on 08/20/2021 5:59:07 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Not even a year in-

National security destroyed - check
Small businesses destroyed - in process (covid)
Borders wide open - check
Healthcare takeover - check
Food supply - see above (plus Gates and CCP buying up farmland)
Election integrity destroyed - check
Color revolution - check (antifa and BLM)
Political opponents imprisoned - check
Cultural and historical icons destroyed - check
Education control - check
Moral degradation- check

All that is left is destruction of religion and gun control.

Many scoffed when Trump mentioned communism in America but read the Communist manifesto and look at where we are.


10 posted on 08/20/2021 6:03:01 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: ping jockey

When the Roman citizenry returned to their small family farms after fighting the Punic Wars, they found that their farms had been taken from their families by large landowners. They were forced into the cities, where they became “the Mob,” dependent on the grain dole and their relief was to go to the games. Bread and Circuses.

And the Roman Republic ended.


11 posted on 08/20/2021 6:03:06 AM PDT by henkster ("We can always fool the foreigner" - Chinese Proverb)
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To: LilFarmer

Forgot energy independence - in process


12 posted on 08/20/2021 6:03:25 AM PDT by LilFarmer
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To: New Perspective

will a family trust shield the family\property?


13 posted on 08/20/2021 6:04:28 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: Red Badger
What is a "farm transfer tax"? This looks the same as Biden's increase in the death/inheritance tax applied to everyone.

Although I hate the idea of the death tax, I don't see why it should be different for a farm than any other business or a diversified stock portfolio built up over a lifetime of savings. The last is easier to value and divide than the farm or business, but ease of theft doesn't excuse the theft.

14 posted on 08/20/2021 6:05:05 AM PDT by KarlInOhio ("Anti-fascist" is from the official name of the Berlin Wall: Anti-fascist Protection Barrier.)
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To: dfwgator

Wherever and whenever a totalitarian government seizes power or is voted into power, be it communist, islamist or fascist, they FIRST THING THEY DO IS TAKE PEOPELS GUNS AND START KILLING ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, ACTORS, JOURNALISTS AND UNIVERSITY INTELECTUALS..............


15 posted on 08/20/2021 6:05:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Who’s having kids? It ain’t Whitey. Who has farms. Mostly Whitey.

An American version of Zimbabwe’s farm seizures.


16 posted on 08/20/2021 6:05:23 AM PDT by I want the USA back (We have more to fear from our government than from the bug that the chicoms made for us. )
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To: I want the USA back

And South Africa now as well..................


17 posted on 08/20/2021 6:05:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Spok

Bingo.

Get rid of independent Americans and re-boot Amerika. All in the image of BeijingBiden’s paymasters.

What is additionally funny is the line used about taxing billionaires — “The money will be used to help the middle class.”


18 posted on 08/20/2021 6:06:08 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Red Badger

My wife’s mother had to sell half of the 400 acres of HER mother’s farm to pay taxes when she died in 1980. Another plank in the communist manifesto.


19 posted on 08/20/2021 6:06:12 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: Red Badger

Will Bill Gates come to the rescue?


20 posted on 08/20/2021 6:06:31 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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