In: Accounting
Determination of Taxable Income and Tax
Liability. A simple trust has the following receipts
and expenditures for 2018. The trust instrument is silent with
respect to capital gains, and state law concerning trust accounting
income follows the Uniform Act. Assume the trustee’s fee is charged
equally to income and to principal.
Corporate bond interest $40,000
Tax-exempt interest 9,000
Long-term capital gain 5,000
Trustee’s fee 2,000
Distribution to beneficiary 48,000
a. What is the trust’s taxable income?
b. What is the trust’s tax liability?