With her near-sightedness, and those tremulous fingers of hers, at once inflexible and delicate, she could not be a seamstress; although her sampler, of fifty years gone by, exhibited some of the most recondite specimens of ornamental needlework.
State taxes on family trusts vary, but federal laws require family trusts to pay taxes on income it keeps but not on any that is distributed. A trust that earns $50,000 and distributes it all to trust beneficiaries pays no income tax. The beneficiaries pay income taxes on funds given to them.
Trusts and estates. How the trust's income is taxed. The tax on a trust's trustee income is calculated at a flat rate of 33 cents in the dollar for all three different types of trust. Beneficiaries who are New Zealand residents are liable for New Zealand income tax on all their income, from any source in the world.