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 taxable income/loss is $__________.
d. Each of the beneficiaries can report _____________ of gross income.