Save America’s Family Forests Act of 2026

Key Points

• This bill helps family forest owners by tripling the amount of money they can deduct from their taxes for planting new trees. Currently, owners can deduct $10,000 for replanting costs, but this bill would raise that limit to $30,000 per year to help cover the actual costs of labor and seedlings.
• A new tax break would be created specifically for forests hit by natural disasters like wildfires or hurricanes. If a forest is destroyed by a disaster declared by the government, the owner could deduct up to $1 million in replanting costs to help them recover and get trees back in the ground faster.
• To make sure these benefits keep their value over time, the bill adds an inflation adjustment. This means the tax deduction limits will automatically go up in the future as the cost of living and business expenses increase.
• The policy is designed to encourage long-term forest health rather than quick profits. If a landowner takes the tax break but sells the land or the timber within 10 years, they may be required to pay some of that tax money back to the government.

Impact Analysis

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