Instructor
Greg Carnes
Instructor
Dr. Gregory Carnes serves as Raburn Eminent Scholar of Accounting at the University of North Alabama (UNA) and previously served as Dean of the Sanders College of Business and Technology (COBT) for 11 years. Dr. Carnes is well known nationally as an academic leader, having served as President of the Accounting Program Leadership Group, President-Elect of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and Secretary of the American Taxation Association. He served a three-year term as a board member of the Southern Business Administrators Association ending in 2024. He has served as Chair of the Education Committee of the Alabama Society of CPAs and also had significant service roles in the past with the Illinois CPA Society and the American Accounting Association.
Dr. Carnes has authored tax material for Wiley CPA Excel and UWorld for the last 20 years. Dr. Carnes also has co-authored two tax textbooks for Wiley, the first of which (Fundamentals of Taxation of Individuals) was published in fall 2023. The second book, Taxation of Business Entities, will be available in fall 2025. He has also delivered tax training for national accounting firms and approximately 25 accounting state societies. Dr. Carnes has published approximately 30 articles in leading academic and professional journals.
This presentation focuses on the income tax rules that apply to estates and trusts transactions and provides problems that illustrate the application of the rules. We begin by explaining the computation of fiduciary accounting income (including the Uniform Principal and Income Act (UPAIA) and how this affects the computation of taxable income for the fiduciary and the beneficiaries. We next discuss the computation of fiduciary taxable income, including the income distribution deduction and the importance of distributable net income. We then show how beneficiaries are taxed on the income distributed to them.