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This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn: - That Distributable Net Income (DNI) acts as a ceiling for both the trust's distribution deduction and the beneficiary's reportable income. - Why capital gains allocated to the trust's principal (corpus) are the most common and critical exclusion from the DNI calculation on the EA exam. - How tax-exempt interest is included in the DNI calculation to ensure its tax-free character is retained when passed through to the beneficiary. - The function of the Tier System in complex trusts, which prioritizes mandatory (Tier 1) income distributions over discretionary (Tier 2) distributions when allocating DNI. - A simple mnemonic to avoid the most common exam trap: 'With DNI, you must deny the capital gain.'
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