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Foreign Trusts: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Taxation of Foreign Trusts but Were Afraid to Ask



by Michael G. Pfeifer
Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered - Washington Office

January 9, 2009

Previously published by Presented at MICPEL: Beyond QDOTs- International Estate Planning for a Flat World on October 23, 2008

The U.S. taxation of foreign trusts and trusts with foreign grantors was altered substantially by the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 ("1996 Small Business Act") and the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 ("1997 TRA").


 

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