The Lane Sisters trust is required to distribute 460,000 annually equally to its two income beneficiaries, Clare and Renee. If trust income is not sufficient to pay these amounts, the trustee can invade corpus to the extent necessary. During the current year, the trust generates only taxable interest income and has distributable net income (DNI) of $150,000; the trustee distributes $30,000 to Clare and $130,000 to Renee.
A) How much of the $130,000 distributed to renee must be included in her gross income?
B) How much of the $30,000 distributed to Clare must be included in her gross income?
C) Are these distributions considered to be first-tier or second-tier distributions?