Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-449 – Deferred compensation, annuities and similar payments
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1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.
A. “Payment” means a payment that a trustee may receive over a fixed number of years or during the life of one or more individuals because of services rendered or property transferred to the payor in exchange for future payments. “Payment” includes a payment made in money or property from the payor’s general assets or from a separate fund created by the payor. For the purposes of subsections 4, 5, 6 and 7, “payment” also includes any payment from any separate fund, regardless of the reason for the payment. [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
B. “Separate fund” includes a private or commercial annuity, an individual retirement account and a pension, profit-sharing, stock-bonus or stock-ownership plan. [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-449
- Accounting period: includes a portion of a calendar year or other 12-month period that begins when an income interest begins or ends when an income interest ends. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-402
- Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Income: includes a portion of receipts from a sale, exchange or liquidation of a principal asset, to the extent provided in subpart 4. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-402
- Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. Source: OCC
- Marital deduction: The deduction(s) that can be taken in the determination of gift and estate tax liabilities because of the existence of a marriage or marital relationship.
- Month: means a calendar month. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
- 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 Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-402
- Principal: means property held in trust for distribution to a remainder beneficiary when the trust terminates. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-402
- 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 Maine Revised Statutes Title 18-C Sec. 7-402
- United States: includes territories and the District of Columbia. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 1 Sec. 72
2. Payment is interest or dividend; allocate to income. To the extent that a payment is characterized as interest, a dividend or a payment made in lieu of interest or a dividend, a trustee shall allocate the payment to income. The trustee shall allocate to principal the balance of the payment and any other payment received in the same accounting period that is not characterized as interest, a dividend or an equivalent payment.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
3. Payment not interest or dividend; allocation based on if required. If no part of a payment is characterized as interest, a dividend or an equivalent payment, and all or part of the payment is required to be made, a trustee shall allocate to income 10% of the part that is required to be made during the accounting period and the balance to principal. If no part of a payment is required to be made or the payment received is the entire amount to which the trustee is entitled, the trustee shall allocate the entire payment to principal. For purposes of this subsection, a payment is not required to be made to the extent that it is made because the trustee exercises a right of withdrawal.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
4. Payment qualifies for marital deduction. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, subsections 6 and 7 apply and subsections 2 and 3 do not apply in determining the allocation of a payment made from a separate fund to a trust:
A. That qualifies for the marital deduction under the federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 United States Code § 2056(b)(7) (2010), as amended, and for which either such an election has been made for federal purposes or for which an election under the pertinent provisions of the laws of the State to qualify as Maine qualified terminable interest property has been made; or [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
B. That qualifies for the marital deduction under the federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 United States Code § 2056(b)(5) (2010), as amended. [PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
5. Series of payments qualify for marital deduction. Subsections 4, 6 and 7 do not apply if and to the extent that the series of payments would, without the application of subsection 4, qualify for the marital deduction under the federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 United States Code § 2056(b)(7)(C) (2010), as amended.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
6. Internal income of separate fund. A trustee shall determine the internal income of each separate fund for the accounting period as if the separate fund were a trust subject to this Part. Upon request of the surviving spouse, the trustee shall demand that the person administering the separate fund distribute the internal income to the trust. The trustee shall allocate a payment from the separate fund to income to the extent of the internal income of the separate fund and distribute that amount to the surviving spouse. The trustee shall allocate the balance of the payment to principal. Upon request of the surviving spouse, the trustee shall allocate principal to income to the extent the internal income of the separate fund exceeds payments made from the separate fund to the trust during the accounting period.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
7. Value of separate fund. If a trustee cannot determine the internal income of a separate fund but can determine the value of the separate fund, the internal income of the separate fund is deemed to equal 4% of the fund’s value, according to the most recent statement of value preceding the beginning of the accounting period. If the trustee can determine neither the internal income of the separate fund nor the fund’s value, the internal income of the fund is deemed to equal the product of the interest rate and the present value of the expected future payments, as determined under the federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 United States Code § 7520 (2010), as amended, for the month preceding the accounting period for which the computation is made.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
8. Not applicable. This section does not apply to a payment to which section 7?450 applies.
[PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW); PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).]
SECTION HISTORY
PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. A, §2 (NEW). PL 2017, c. 402, Pt. F, §1 (AFF). PL 2019, c. 417, Pt. B, §14 (AFF).