Get IRS 8855 2009

Does Form 8855 e-file with the 1041? Making a 645 election on a 1041 does not prevent it from being e-filed, but printing, signatures and paper-filing are required for Form 8855 (Election To Treat a Qualified Revocable Trust as Part of an Estate).

645 Election gives trustees and executors more flexibility. ... Well, a §645 election allows the executor of an estate and the trustee of a revocable trust to elect to treat the estate and the trust as one for tax purposes.

Well, a §645 election allows the executor of an estate and the trustee of a revocable trust to elect to treat the estate and the trust as one for tax purposes. ... If you elect §645, it gives you the ability to have the trust on a fiscal year end as well, meaning only one tax return.

Trusts are required to use a calendar year end, no matter when the tax year begins. ... When the decedent has both a QRT and a probate estate, the Sec. 645 election allows the trustee and the executor to effectively combine a QRT and an estate into one tax return, filed as an estate.

Since trusts usually avoid probate, your beneficiaries may gain access to these assets more quickly than they might to assets that are transferred using a will. Additionally, if it is an irrevocable trust, it may not be considered part of the taxable estate, so fewer taxes may be due upon your death.

A revocable living trust is always a grantor trust, and it does not file its own tax return. Important exception: if you are trustee of a revocable living trust created by someone else, you can get an EIN but you are not required to do so. Even if you do get an EIN, the trust does not file a separate trust tax return.

Estates, Trusts & Gifts. A qualified revocable trust (QRT) is any trust (or part of a trust) that was treated as owned by a decedent (on that decedent's date of death) by reason of a power to revoke that was exercisable by the decedent (without regard to whether the power was held by the decedent's spouse).

Estates, Trusts & Gifts. A qualified revocable trust (QRT) is any trust (or part of a trust) that was treated as owned by a decedent (on that decedent's date of death) by reason of a power to revoke that was exercisable by the decedent (without regard to whether the power was held by the decedent's spouse).

Examples of assets that would generate income to the decedent's estate include savings accounts, CDs, stocks, bonds, mutual funds and rental property. IRS Form 1041, U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts, is required if the estate generates more than $600 in annual gross income.

The trustees of each qualified revocable trust (QRT) and the executor of the related estate, if any, use Form 8855 to make a section 645 election. This election allows a QRT to be treated and taxed (for income tax purposes) as part of its related estate during the election period.

The trustees of each qualified revocable trust (QRT) and the executor of the related estate, if any, use this form to make a section 645 election. This election allows a QRT to be treated and taxed (for income tax purposes) as part of its related estate during the election period.

The tax return for a Sec. 645 combined estate and trust appears to be one return in terms of reporting the income and expenses on the Form 1041 tax return.

A revocable trust is a method of protecting assets from probate should the grantor of the trust die. An irrevocable trust is one that cannot be modified by the grantor. Upon the death of the grantor, a revocable trust automatically becomes irrevocable.

For the most part, it's forever. You can't take property back that you've placed into it. You can't act as trustee and manage the trust's assets. ... A revocable living trust becomes irrevocable when the grantor dies because he's no longer available to make changes to it.

The assets in your trust pass to your beneficiaries much in the same way they would have if you had left a will instead. Your successor trustee acts as the executor of your will would. The only real difference is that the assets you placed in the trust do not have to go through probate.