[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 8]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 26CFR1.665(g)-2A]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1_INCOME TAXES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.665(g)-2A  Application of separate share rule.

    (a) In general. If the separate share rule of section 663(c) is 
applicable for any taxable year of a trust, subpart D is applied as if 
each share were a separate trust except as provided in paragraph (c) of 
this section and in Sec. 1.668(a)-1A(c). Thus, the amounts of an 
``accumulation distribution'', ``undistributed net income'', 
``undistributed capital gain'', and ``capital gain distribution'' are 
computed separately for each share.
    (b) Allocation of taxes--undistributed net income. The ``taxes 
imposed on the trust attributable to the undistributed net income'' are 
allocated as follows:
    (1) There is first allocated to each separate share that portion of 
the ``taxes imposed on the trust attributable to the undistributed net 
income'' (as defined in Sec. 1.665(d)-1A(b)), computed before the 
allowance of any credits under section 642(a), that bears the same 
relation to the total of such taxes that the distributable net income of 
the separate share bears to the distributable net income of the trust, 
adjusted for this purpose as follows:
    (i) There is excluded from distributable net income of the trust and 
of each separate share any tax-exempt interest, foreign income of a 
foreign trust, and excluded dividends, to the extent such amounts are 
included in distributable net income pursuant to section 643(a) (5), 
(6), and (7); and
    (ii) The distributable net income of the trust is reduced by any 
deductions allowable under section 661 for amounts paid, credited, or 
required to be distributed during the taxable year, and the 
distributable net income of each separate share is reduced by any such 
deduction allocable to that share.
    (2) The taxes so determined for each separate share are then reduced 
by that portion of the credits against tax allowable to the trust under 
section 642(a) in computing the ``taxes imposed on the trust'' that 
bears the same relation to the total of such credits that the items of 
distributable net income allocable to the separate share with respect to 
which the credit is allowed bear to the total of such items of the 
trust.
    (c) Allocation of taxes--undistributed capital gain. The ``taxes 
imposed on the trust attributable to undistributed capital gain'' are 
allocated as follows:
    (1) There is first allocated to each separate share that portion of 
the ``taxes imposed on the trust attributable to undistributed capital 
gain'' (as defined in Sec. 1.665(d)-1A(c)), computed before the 
allowance of any credits under section 642(a), that bears the same 
relation to the total of such taxes that the undistributed capital gain 
(prior to the deduction of taxes under section 665(c)(2)) of the 
separate share bears to the total such undistributed capital gain of the 
trust.
    (2) The taxes so determined for each separate share are then reduced 
by that portion of the credits against tax allowable to the trust under 
section 642(a) in computing the ``taxes imposed on the trust'' that 
bears the same relation to the total of such credits that the capital 
gain allocable to the separate share with respect to which the credit is 
allowed bear to the total of such capital gain of the trust.
    (d) Termination of a separate share. (1) If upon termination of a 
separate share, an amount is properly paid, credited, or required to be 
distributed by the trust under section 661(a)(2) to a beneficiary from 
such share, an accumulation distribution will be deemed to have been 
made to the extent of such amount. In determining the distributable net 
income of such share, only those items of income and deduction for the 
taxable year of the trust in which such share terminates, properly 
allocable to such share, shall be taken into consideration.

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    (2) No accumulation distribution will be deemed to have been made 
upon the termination of a separate share to the extent that the property 
constituting such share, or a portion thereof, continues to be held as a 
part of the same trust. The undistributed net income, undistributed 
capital gain, and the taxes imposed on the trust attributable to such 
items, if any, for all preceding taxable years (reduced by any amounts 
deemed distributed under sections 666(a) and 669(a) by reason of any 
accumulation distribution of undistributed net income or undistributed 
capital gain in prior years or the current taxable year), which were 
allocable to the terminating share, shall be treated as being applicable 
to the trust itself. However, no adjustment will be made to the amounts 
deemed distributed under sections 666 and 669 by reason of an 
accumulation distribution of undistributed net income or undistributed 
capital gain from the surviving share or shares made in years prior to 
the year in which the terminating share was added to such surviving 
share or shares.

    (3) The provisions of this paragraph may be illustrated by the 
following example:

    Example. A trust was established under the will of X for the benefit 
of his wife and upon her death the property was to continue in the same 
trust for his two sons, Y and Z. The separate share rule is applicable 
to this trust. The trustee had discretion to pay or accumulate the 
income to the wife, and after her death was to pay each son's share to 
him after he attained the age of 25. When the wife died, Y was 23 and Z 
was 28.

    (1) Upon the death of X's widow, there is no accumulation 
distribution. The entire trust is split into two equal shares, and 
therefore the undistributed net income and the undistributed capital 
gain of the trust are split into two shares.

    (2) The distribution to Z of his share after his mother's death is 
an accumulation distribution of his separate share of one-half of the 
undistributed net income and undistributed capital gain.


[T.D. 7204, 37 FR 17142, Aug. 25, 1972]

            grantors and others treated as substantial owners