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Home » HVAC Distributors Announce Initiative for Death Tax Repeal

HVAC Distributors Announce Initiative for Death Tax Repeal

January 26, 2017

HARDI, the largest HVACR equipment distributors association, announced its 2017 initiative to repeal the federal estate tax. HARDI members will "Heat Up the Hill" to support Senator John Thune (R-SD) and Congresswoman Kristi Noem's (R-SD) Death Tax Repeal Act of 2017, S. 205 and H.R. 631.

The majority of HARDI members are family owned and operated businesses; 70 percent of family businesses do not survive to the second generation and more than 90 percent do not survive the third generation.

“Our members consistently list the death tax among the top issue of concern for our association and with this new initiative we can help lead the charge in repealing the tax,” said Jon Melchi, vice president of government affairs. “Many of our members have seen first hand the effort it takes to keep a family business running with the death tax. To our members the death tax causes harm, both in life and in death because they are forced to spend hours of time and invest capital in strategies to avoid closing the business in order to pay the tax, taking money away from their employees by increasing the cost of doing business.”

HARDI will activate its membership to push for repeal through visits to Congressional offices by business owners and a nationwide campaign to bring the public's attention to the need to repeal the death tax.

In 2015, HARDI kicked off its "Heat Up the Hill" initiative supporting repeal of the estate tax and supported the House of Representatives passing the Death Tax Repeal Act for the first time in 10 years. During his campaign, President Trump called for repeal of the estate tax and Congressional Republicans included repeal in their tax reform "blueprint."

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