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2 IRS CE/CTEC/NASBA CPE*

Trust returns sit in an awkward place in most practices. Not frequent enough to be routine, complex enough that the errors compound, and the client usually doesn't know what kind of trust they have. The first job is classification — grantor or non-grantor, simple or complex, and which subset of either — because everything downstream on the 1041 follows from that answer.

4 IRS CE/CTEC/NASBA CPE*

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2 IRS CE/CTEC/NASBA CPE*

A client dies and the practitioner inherits a sequence of decisions: what income belongs on the final 1040 versus the estate's 1041, who signs each return, what basis applies, whether to elect a fiscal year, whether to combine a revocable trust with the estate under §645, whether to file a 706 just to preserve portability. Mistakes are often uncorrectable — losses that die with the decedent, a missed §691(c) deduction, an IRD item on the wrong return, a closed portability election.