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March 10, 2025
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Sale of Property in Trust with Corpus

  • March 10, 2025
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If I sell a property for 500K and have corpus of 100K - do I recognize the 100K as an expense to remove the corpus?

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    March 10, 2025

    It depends.  The corpus of a trust is the sum of money or property that is set aside to produce income for a named beneficiary and sits in the trust immediately following death until fully disbursed. 

     

    The value and property owned before death that is now in the estate.  If there was an inheritance tax return then the corpus would be taxed and if not, then only income earned from the corpus will be taxable to the trust/beneficiaries.

     

    Any expenses of the trust would be used on the trust return to arrive at the net income for the beneficiaries and distributed by a K-1. Start with Form 1041. You can use the link below to purchase and download the software for your Form 1041.

    States that currently impose an Inheritance or Estate Tax

    IRS Estate Tax Thresholds - Form 706 - Not included in TurboTax.

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