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Vanderbilt University Law School

1977

Tax reform

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Foreign Accumulation Trusts And The Tax Reform Act Of 1976, David H. Simmons Jan 1977

Foreign Accumulation Trusts And The Tax Reform Act Of 1976, David H. Simmons

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

If the foreign trust is not a grantor trust under the Grantor Trust Provisions (sections 671-679), then the new Act creates several new disparities in the tax treatment between it and a corresponding domestic accumulation trust. Domestic accumulation trusts are no longer subjected to a capital gains throw back, while capital gains of foreign trusts are included in DNI, subject to throw back, and then taxed as ordinary income to the beneficiary because of the abolition of the character rules upon accumulation distribution. Foreign trusts are subjected to throw back of accumulation distributions even though the accumulation was during the …