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How Do You Set Up a Foreign Trust? Review and appoint a professional trustee who is established outside of the United States. Review and appoint a protector who is also established outside of the United States. Draft and solidify your foreign Trust document. Open or consolidate your foreign bank and brokerage accounts.
A statement that the trust will permit either the IRS or the U.S. beneficiary to inspect and copy the trust's permanent books of account, records, and such other documents that are necessary to establish the appropriate treatment of any distribution or deemed distribution for U.S. tax purposes.
The Form 3520 requires the U.S. owner to provide the fair market value of the foreign trust the U.S. owner is treated as owning and to attach a separate statement (Foreign Grantor Trust Owner Statement) showing the amount of income attributable to him or her for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
However, if the trust is classified as a grantor trust, it is not required to file a Form 1041, provided that the individual grantor reports all items of income and allowable expenses on his own Form 1040 or 1040-SR, U.S. Individual Income Tax Return.
A trust that isn't a domestic trust is treated as a foreign trust. If you are the trustee of a foreign trust, file Form 1040-NR instead of Form 1041. Also, a foreign trust with a U.S. owner generally must file Form 3520-A, Annual Information Return of Foreign Trust With a U.S. Owner.