The Allwardt Trust is a simple trust that correctly uses the calendar year for tax purposes. Its income beneficiaries (Lucy and Ethel) are entitled to the trust's annual accounting income in shares of one-half each.
For the current tax year, Allwardt reports the following.
Ordinary income $100,000
Long-term capital gains 30,000
Trustee commission expense, allocable to corpus 5,000
The trust instrument allocates the capital gain to income.
a. Each beneficiary is entitled to receive income of $_________ .
b. The trust's DNI is $_______ .
c. The trust's Selecttaxable incomelossCorrect 1 of Item 3 is $__________ .
d. Each of the beneficiaries can report _____________ of gross income.