2018 Revised Code of Washington
Title 11 - PROBATE AND TRUST LAW
11.104A Washington principal and income act of 2002.
11.104A.290 Income taxes.
RCW 11.104A.290 Income taxes.
(1) A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to income must be charged to income.
(2) A tax required to be paid by a trustee based on receipts allocated to principal must be charged to principal, even if the tax is called an income tax by the taxing authority.
(3) A tax required to be paid by a trustee on the trust's share of an entity's taxable income must be charged:
(a) To income to the extent that receipts from the entity are allocated only to income;
(b) To principal to the extent that receipts from the entity are allocated only to principal;
(c) Proportionately to income and principal to the extent that receipts from the entity are allocated to both income and principal;
(d) Otherwise to principal.
(4) Before applying subsections (1) through (3) of this section, the trustee must adjust income or principal receipts by the distributions to a beneficiary for which the trust receives an income tax deduction.
[ 2011 c 33 § 1; 2002 c 345 § 505.]
