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The U.S. owner must file Form 3520, Annual Return to Report Transactions with Foreign Trusts and Receipt of Certain Foreign Gifts, to report any transfers to a foreign trust, and must also file the form (Form 3520) annually to report ownership of the foreign trust even if no transfer is made to the trust in that year.

Under US law, a trust that was organized in a foreign country and subject to that country's laws and courts is a foreign trust.

Every foreign trust is required to have its own Employer Identification Number (EIN) to place in Part 1, Line 1b of Form 3520-A. To apply for an EIN, refer to How to Apply for an EIN.

U.S. Income Taxation after a Settlor's Death Distribution of a non-grantor trust's current DNI to a U.S. beneficiary is taxable to the beneficiary and the character of that income generally flows through from the trust.

Foreign non-grantor trust with US beneficiary Basically, any trust not considered a grantor trust is by default a non-grantor trust and treated as its own taxpayer. ... In this case the foreign trust is not taxed on income and may deduct any amount of distribution up to distributable net income.

Non-US Citizen Trustees Naming a non-US citizen as a trustee may result in the trust being considered a foreign trust. ... A US citizen trustee will not likely incur additional income tax consequences because the trust will be likely be considered a domestic trust and taxed accordingly.

Trustees usually send out annual trust reports to beneficiaries outlining the trust asset's gains, losses, and expenses such as commission fees paid out. If a trustee fails to send at least one annual report, however, beneficiaries can request an accounting of trust investments from the court.

When trust beneficiaries receive distributions from the trust's principal balance, they do not have to pay taxes on the distribution. ... The trust must pay taxes on any interest income it holds and does not distribute past year-end. Interest income the trust distributes is taxable to the beneficiary who receives it.

In general, the trust must pay income tax on any income its assets generate. But if the terms of the trust require it to pay out its income to a beneficiary, then the trust itself is entitled to get a deduction for any distributable net income. Any remaining income not distributed then gets taxed to the trust directly.

After your death The income earned by trust assets after your passing will be listed on the trust's own, separate income tax return. ... When the now irrevocable trust makes distributions to beneficiaries, then generally the trust will deduct from income the distributions made.