Question - Larry created an irrevocable trust in 2002 for the benefit of his sisters, Linda and Lucy. The trustee must pay out all income annually and may, at his discretion, also distribute corpus. During the current year, the following events occurred with respect to the trust:
Dividends received $13,200
Tax-exempt Interest received 11,200
Long-term capital gain (allocate to corpus) 20,000
Trustee's fee (allocate to corpus) 2,000
The trustee made distributions of $8,400 to Linda and $16,000 to Lucy. The trust and both beneficiaries are cash basis, calendar year taxpayers.
Required - Compute the trust's accounting income.