Treasury Regulations (26 C.F.R.)

26 CFR § 1.643(c)-1

Definition of “beneficiary”.

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An heir, legatee, or devisee (including an estate or trust) is a beneficiary. A trust created under a decedent's will is a beneficiary of the decedent's estate. The following persons are treated as beneficiaries:

# (a)

Any person with respect to an amount used to discharge or satisfy that person's legal obligation as that term is used in § 1.662(a)-4.

# (b)

The grantor of a trust with respect to an amount applied or distributed for the support of a dependent under the circumstances specified in section 677(b) out of corpus or out of other than income for the taxable year of the trust.

# (c)

The trustee or cotrustee of a trust with respect to an amount applied or distributed for the support of a dependent under the circumstances specified in section 678(c) out of corpus or out of other than income for the taxable year of the trust.

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In this part (40 sections)
  1. 1.642(g)-1 · Disallowance of double deductions; in general.
  2. 1.642(g)-2 · Deductions included.
  3. 1.642(h)-1 · Unused loss carryovers on termination of an estate or…
  4. 1.642(h)-2 · Excess deductions on termination of an estate or trust.
  5. 1.642(h)-3 · Meaning of “beneficiaries succeeding to the property of…
  6. 1.642(h)-4 · Allocation.
  7. 1.642(h)-5 · Examples.
  8. 1.642(i)-1 · Certain distributions by cemetery perpetual care funds.
  9. 1.642(i)-2 · Definitions.
  10. 1.643(a)-0 · Distributable net income; deduction for distributions; in…
  11. 1.643(a)-1 · Deduction for distributions.
  12. 1.643(a)-2 · Deduction for personal exemption.
  13. 1.643(a)-3 · Capital gains and losses.
  14. 1.643(a)-4 · Extraordinary dividends and taxable stock dividends.
  15. 1.643(a)-5 · Tax-exempt interest.
  16. 1.643(a)-6 · Income of foreign trust.
  17. 1.643(a)-7 · Dividends.
  18. 1.643(a)-8 · Certain distributions by charitable remainder trusts.
  19. 1.643(b)-1 · Definition of income.
  20. 1.643(b)-2 · Dividends allocated to corpus.
  21. 1.643(c)-1 · Definition of “beneficiary”.
  22. 1.643(d)-1 · Definition of “foreign trust created by a United States…
  23. 1.643(d)-2 · Illustration of the provisions of section 643.
  24. 1.643(f)-1 · Treatment of multiple trusts.
  25. 1.643(h)-1 · Distributions by certain foreign trusts through…
  26. 1.642(c)-6A · Valuation of charitable remainder interests for which the…
  27. 1.645-1 · Election by certain revocable trusts to be treated as part of…
  28. 1.651(a)-1 · Simple trusts; deduction for distributions; in general.
  29. 1.651(a)-2 · Income required to be distributed currently.
  30. 1.651(a)-3 · Distribution of amounts other than income.
  31. 1.651(a)-4 · Charitable purposes.
  32. 1.651(a)-5 · Estates.
  33. 1.651(b)-1 · Deduction for distributions to beneficiaries.
  34. 1.652(a)-1 · Simple trusts; inclusion of amounts in income of…
  35. 1.652(a)-2 · Distributions in excess of distributable net income.
  36. 1.652(b)-1 · Character of amounts.
  37. 1.652(b)-2 · Allocation of income items.
  38. 1.652(b)-3 · Allocation of deductions.
  39. 1.652(c)-1 · Different taxable years.
  40. 1.652(c)-2 · Death of individual beneficiaries.
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