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Learning To Live With The New Foreign Nongrantor Trust Rules, Carlyn S. Mccaffrey, Elyse G. Kirschner
Learning To Live With The New Foreign Nongrantor Trust Rules, Carlyn S. Mccaffrey, Elyse G. Kirschner
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 (the 1996 Act) was intended to deal a heavy blow to the appeal of foreign trusts to U.S. persons. The results were mixed. On the one hand, the 1996 Act imposes an array of reporting requirements, imposes harsh penalties on failures to comply with these requirements, increases the interest charge imposed on taxes paid on distributions of accumulated income from foreign trusts, treats loans of cash from foreign trusts as distributions, and expands the kinds of gifts that can be treated as indirect transfers from foreign trusts. On the other hand, curiously, …
Foreign Accumulation Trusts And The Tax Reform Act Of 1976, David H. Simmons
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 …