Compute the 2020 fiduciary income and Federal income tax for the Blue Trust. Prepare a spreadsheet solution to make your computations. Then complete a Form 1041 for the entity.

In addition, determine the amount and character of the income and expense items that each beneficiary must report for the year. Omit any alternative minimum tax computations. The year’s activities of the trust include the following.

The trust and Betty both use the calendar tax year. Under the terms of the trust instrument, administrative fees are allocated to income. The trustee must distribute all of the entity’s accounting income to Betty Blue by February 15 of the following year. The trustee followed this charge and made no other distributions during the year.

Administrative fees were assigned properly as an offset to taxable interest income. The trust was created on July 8, 2000. There are no tax credits for the year, and none of the entity’s income was derived from a personal services contract. Blue has no economic interest in any foreign trust, and it is not subject to the AMT. Its Federal identification number is 11-1111121.

The trustee, Hoover State Federal Bank, is located at 49599 Cold Harbor Boulevard, Mountain Brook, AL 35223. Betty lives at 67671 Crestline Road, Birmingham, AL 35212. Her Social Security number is 123-45-6788.

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Dividend income, all qualified U.S. stocks Taxable interest income Tax-exempt interest income Trustee's fees $50,000 10,000 15,000 4,000