Qualified Subchapter S Trust (16 Pages)

This is an irrevocable trust designed to be a qualified holder of S corporation stock. In order to be so qualified, the income beneficiary of the trust must be the sole trust beneficiary, entitled to all of the trust income currently. Article 3 of the Form is designed to satisfy this and all of the other statutory requirements of a Qualified Subchapter S Trust (“QSST”). Transfers of stock held in the trust to a beneficiary that would not qualify as a qualified S corporation shareholder are deemed invalid. In this Form, the principal of the trust may be paid at any time to the beneficiary for health, education, maintenance and support. The beneficiary is entitled to receive one-half of the trust principal upon attaining age 45, and the balance upon attaining age 60. Of course, other ages could be substituted for these. If the beneficiary should die before reaching age 60, the beneficiary is granted a general power of appointment over the trust property. In default of the exercise of this power by the beneficiary, the trust property passes to the descendants of the beneficiary, and, if there are no descendants, to the siblings of the beneficiary.

 

Note the presence of a Crummey right of withdrawal in Article 2 of the Form to allow ongoing gifts to the trust to qualify for the present interest gift tax exclusion. 

 

 

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