The trustee of the Pieper Trust can distribute any amount of accounting income and corpus to the

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The trustee of the Pieper Trust can distribute any amount of accounting income and corpus to the trust’s beneficiaries, Lydia and Kent. This year, the trust incurred the following.

Taxable interest income           ……………….........…………… $40,000

Tax-exempt interest income ……………..........…………………   20,000

Long-term capital gains—allocable to corpus ……………    80,000

Fiduciary’s fees—allocable to corpus ………….........………….   9,000

The trustee distributed $26,000 to Lydia and $13,000 to Kent.

a. What is Pieper’s trust accounting income?

b. What is Pieper’s DNI?

c. What is Pieper’s taxable income?

d. What amounts are taxed to each of the beneficiaries?

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South Western Federal Taxation 2016 Corporations Partnerships Estates And Trusts

ISBN: 9781305399884

39th Edition

Authors: James Boyd, William Hoffman, Raabe, David Maloney, Young

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