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Only beneficiaries can receive benefits from a trust, so it is important to know who can and cannot be beneficiaries. Beneficiaries can be defined by name. For example, “David Marks, Peter Jones, Sally Abrahams” etc. Or as an identifiable class of people. For example, “Any child born of or adopted by David Marks”. Another Trust can also be a beneficiary and again this could be defined by Trust name and number or by identifiable class such as “Any trust of which David Marks is a beneficiary”. A Company or CC can be a beneficiary. This could be defined by name…

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Trusts are taxed at 45%, but that rarely matters because they should not earn taxable income, and, if they do, it should bypass the trust completely. Here’s how. Provided taxable income received by or accrued to a trust is distributed to a beneficiary prior to the trust’s tax year end (28 February), then it may flow through a pipe, or conduit, directly to the beneficiary without touching the trust at all. The nature of the income is unchanged. That is, a dividend remains a dividend, interest remains…

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