Skip to main content
Level 3
May 27, 2022
Question

Trust distributes all of it's income to beneficiaries. Trust has Foreign tax Credit which then passes out to beneficiaries. Is the foreign tax credit allocated to beneficiaries based on income received by them or is it divided equally between them.

  • May 27, 2022
  • 1 reply
  • 10 views

The Lacerte program allocates the FTC equally between the trust beneficiaries even though the income is distributed unequally based on distributions received by each. Is this correct or should the FTC be allocated based on income received by each beneficiary.

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

sjrcpa
Level 15
May 27, 2022

It should be allocated based on the income.

The more I know the more I don’t know.
BBmackAuthor
Level 3
May 28, 2022

That was what I thought but Lacerte allocates it equally to each beneficiary who received a distribution and says there is no other way to do it in the program. How do you handle this? Do you tell the beneficiary the the K-1 is not correct and give them the correct figures. That would seem like the only way to do it.

Thanks for your help.