(1) To the extent that a fiduciary does not account for receipts from the sale of timber and related products as a business under Section 75A-5-403, the fiduciary shall allocate the net receipts:

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Terms Used In Utah Code 75A-5-412

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Fiduciary: includes :
         (8)(a) a trustee, trust director as defined in Section 75-12-102, personal representative, life tenant, holder of a term interest, and person acting under a delegation from a fiduciary;
         (8)(b) a person that holds property for a successor beneficiary whose interest may be affected by an allocation of receipts and expenditures between income and principal; and
         (8)(c) if there are two or more co-fiduciaries, all co-fiduciaries acting under the terms of the trust and applicable law. See Utah Code 75A-5-102
  • Income: includes a part of receipts from a sale, exchange, or liquidation of a principal asset to the extent provided in Part 4, Allocation of Receipts. See Utah Code 75A-5-102
  • Land: includes :
         (18)(a) land;
         (18)(b) a tenement;
         (18)(c) a hereditament;
         (18)(d) a water right;
         (18)(e) a possessory right; and
         (18)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to, production of income for, or use by a current or successor beneficiary. See Utah Code 75A-5-102
  • Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Settlor: means the same as that term is defined in Section 75-7-103. See Utah Code 75A-5-102
     (1)(a) to income, to the extent that the amount of timber cut from the land does not exceed the rate of growth of the timber;
     (1)(b) to principal, to the extent that the amount of timber cut from the land exceeds the rate of growth of the timber or the net receipts are from the sale of standing timber;
     (1)(c) between income and principal if the net receipts are from the lease of land used for growing and cutting timber or from a contract to cut timber from land, by determining the amount of timber cut from the land under the lease or contract and applying the rules in Subsections (1)(a) and (b); or
     (1)(d) to principal, to the extent that advance payments, bonuses, and other payments are not allocated under Subsection (1)(a), (b), or (c).
(2) In determining net receipts to be allocated under Subsection (1), a fiduciary shall deduct and transfer to principal a reasonable amount for depletion.
(3) This section applies to land owned or held by a fiduciary regardless of whether a settlor was cutting timber from the land before the fiduciary owned or held the property.
(4)

     (4)(a) If a fiduciary owns or holds an interest in land used for growing and cutting timber before July 1, 2020, the fiduciary may allocate net receipts from the sale of timber and related products as provided in this section or in the manner used by the fiduciary before July 1, 2020.
     (4)(b) If the fiduciary acquires an interest in land used for growing and cutting timber on or after July 1, 2020, the fiduciary shall allocate net receipts from the sale of timber and related products as provided in this section.