This program is eligible for 3 hours of CLE credit in 60-minute states. In 50-minute states, this program is eligible for 3.6 hours of CLE credit. Credit hours are estimated and are subject to each state’s approval and credit rounding rules.
Overview
This course will review the basics of the income taxation of estates and trusts including a discussion of:
- The structure of Subchapter J of the Internal Revenue Code
- The concept and calculation of distributable net income (DNI)
- The types of trusts (simple, complex and grantor)
- Trust accounting income
- The distribution system and the allocation of DNI among the entity and its beneficiaries with a discussion of the tier system
- The separate share rule
- The 65 day rule
- The fiduciary income tax charitable deduction
- The tax consequences of the termination of a trust or estate
Recorded in May 2024.
Faculty
Jeremiah W. Doyle, IV, Esq.
Jere Doyle is an estate planning strategist for BNY Wealth and a Senior Vice President of Bank of New York Mellon. He has been with the firm since 1981. Jere provides high net worth individuals and families throughout the country with integrated wealth management advice on how to hold, manage and transfer their wealth in a tax efficient manner. Jere is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before the United States District Court, United States Court of Appeals (First Circuit) and the United States Tax Court. He formerly served as a member of the Massachusetts Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments. Jere is the co-author of Income Taxation of Trusts and Estates, a law school casebook published in 2023 by Carolina Academic Press. He is also the editor and co-author of Preparing Fiduciary Income Tax Returns, a contributing author of Preparing Estate Tax Returns, a contributing author of Understanding and Using Trusts, a contributing author of Drafting Irrevocable Trusts in Massachusetts, all published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, a reviewing editor of the 1041 Deskbook published by Practitioner’s Publishing Company and a contributing columnist for Estate Planning Review – The Journal published by Wolters Kluwer and a member of its Editorial Board. Jere is an adjunct professor of law in the Graduate Tax Program at Boston University School of Law teaching courses in Exempt Organizations, Tax Aspects of Charitable Giving, Income Taxation of Estates and Trusts and the Tax Aspects of Marital Dissolution. Jere received a LL.M. in banking law from Boston University Law School, a LL.M. in taxation from Boston University Law School, a Juris Doctor from Hamline University Law School and a BS in accounting from Providence College. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC). He served as president of the Boston Estate Planning Council and as a member of its Executive Committee and was a 20-year member of the Executive Committee of the Essex County Bar Association. He is also a member of the steering committee for the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Advanced Estate Planning Program. He was named as the “Estate Planner of the Year” in 2009 by the Boston Estate Planning Council. In 2011 he was elected to the National Association of Estate Planners & Councils (NAEPC) Estate Planning Hall of Fame as an Accredited Estate Planner® (Distinguished). He has spoken at numerous professional education programs throughout the country on various topics, been quoted in numerous business publications and has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, Bloomberg Yahoo! Finance and CNN.
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