State Representative Steve Bloom, R-Cumberland, continues his push to end the inheritance tax. Just a few weeks into the 2013-14 legislative session, the House Finance Committee approved his legislation, HB 48, to end the inheritance tax, called by some the “death tax,” on family-owned businesses.

The measure is a follow-up to a Bloom bill, signed by Governor Tom Corbett in July 2012, that ended the inheritance tax on family farms.