DavidD66
Expert Alumni

Business & farm

First you have to determine if state law and the governing instrument of the trust allows for the distribution of capital gains from a complex trust.  If it is allowed, you would allocate the capital gains to fiduciary accounting income (FAI) which will make them available for distributable net income (DNI).

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