Vermont Statutes Title 14 Sec. 3351
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 14 Sec. 3351
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- following: when used by way of reference to a section of the law shall mean the next preceding or following section. See
- Income: means money or property that a fiduciary receives as current return from a principal asset. See
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Person: means an individual; corporation; business trust; estate; trust; partnership; limited liability company; association; joint venture; government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation; or any other legal or commercial entity. See
- Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates. See
- real estate: shall include lands, tenements, and hereditaments and all rights thereto and interests therein, and pews or slips in places of public worship shall be treated as real estate. See
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
- Trustee: includes an original, additional, or successor trustee, whether or not appointed or confirmed by a court. See
§ 3351. Character of receipts
(a) As used in this section, “entity” means a corporation, partnership, limited liability company, regulated investment company, real estate investment trust, common trust fund, or any other organization in which a trustee has an interest other than a trust or estate to which section 3352 of this title applies, a business or activity to which section 3353 of this title applies, or an asset-backed security to which section 3365 of this title applies.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a trustee shall allocate to income money received from an entity, including reinvested cash dividends.
(c) A trustee shall allocate the following receipts from an entity to principal:
(1) property other than money, excluding reinvested cash dividends, provided that if the trustee may elect between money and other property as a distribution, property so elected and distributed shall retain its character as income;
(2) money received in one distribution or a series of related distributions in exchange for part or all of a trust’s interest in the entity;
(3) money received in total or partial liquidation of the entity;
(4) money received from an entity that is a regulated investment company or a real estate investment trust if the money distributed is a capital gain dividend for federal income tax purposes; and
(5) capital gains and capital gains distributions.
(d) Money is received in partial liquidation:
(1) to the extent that the entity, at or near the time of a distribution, indicates that it is a distribution in partial liquidation; or
(2) if the total amount of money and property received in a distribution or series of related distributions is greater than 20 percent of the entity’s gross assets, as shown by the entity’s year-end financial statements immediately preceding the initial receipt.
(e) Money is not received in partial liquidation, nor may it be taken into account under subdivision (d)(2) of this section, to the extent that it does not exceed the amount of income tax that a trustee or beneficiary must pay on taxable income of the entity that distributes the money.
(f) A trustee may rely upon a statement made by an entity about the source or character of a distribution if the statement is made at or near the time of distribution by the entity’s board of directors or other person or group of persons authorized to exercise powers to pay money or transfer property comparable to those of a corporation’s board of directors. (Added 2011, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)