This PowerPoint presentation covers the income tax treatment for estates and trusts, including: how a trust is taxed, personal exemptions, the distribution deduction, income for distribution purposes, distributable net income (DNI) under section 643(a), DNI relationships, tiers of distributions, deductions, deductions subject to 2% limitation, deductions allocated to classes of DNI, distributions in kind, impact to trust or estate, impact on beneficiary, case problem for simple trust and distribution deduction. It was developed by the AICPA Trust, Estate, and Gift Tax TRP and its Trust Accounting Income Task Force and was presented at the IRS National Forums in the Summer 2005.
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