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Jane Richey / July 9, 2012

Inheritance Tax for PA Farmers Eliminated

Governor Tom Corbett has signed a law that eliminates the Pennsylvania inheritance tax on farmers.
Before now, children who inherited the family farm had to pay an inheritance tax of 4.5 percent. Those who inherited farmland from a sibling had to pay almost triple that.

“All of us in farming know of friends and peers that have had this very same problem that when a parent passes away and the farm is left to them, they end up having to basically dissolve the farm just to pay the inheritance tax,” said Sally Kolb of Kolb Dairy Farm in Spring City, Chester County.

So, as the family patriarch got older, the Kolbs got creative.

“We actually bought the business from my father in law rather than waiting until he passed away,” said Kolb. “That way we own the business outright. He lives here and has lifetime rights to be here, but the purchase of the business is already complete — we already own it.”

Now that the tax has been eliminated, the roughly 63,000 other farming families in Pennsylvania won’t have to be so crafty.

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