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Repeals the federal estate tax and the generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax for deaths and transfers on or after the law’s enactment, with a limited transition rule for certain Qualified Domestic Trust (QDOT) distributions tied to decedents who died before enactment. It also revises federal gift-tax rules: changes how gifts into trusts are treated, sets the lifetime gift-tax exemption base at $10,000,000 (indexed for inflation with rounding), and applies these gift-tax rules to gifts made on or after enactment (with a special transition rule for the calendar year of enactment).
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S977-978)
Introduced February 13, 2025 by John Thune · Last progress February 13, 2025
Death Tax Repeal Act