‘Kentucky families shouldn’t have to worry about an unfair death tax when they pass their livelihoods down to the next generation’

U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) joined Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-SD), a member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, and dozens of their Senate colleagues in reintroducing legislation to permanently repeal the federal estate tax, more commonly known as the death tax. Senator McConnell is an original cosponsor of Senator Thune’s bill, the Death Tax Repeal Act of 2021, which would finally end this purely punitive tax that has the potential to hit family-run farms and businesses as the result of the owner’s death.