About the Trust Distribution Minutes Library for 08/09

What are Distribution Minutes?

Before the end of each financial year you have to work out who gets what income out of your Family Trust or Testamentary Trust. If you don't then you pay a lot of extra tax.

This kit provides you with a range of pro-forma Distribution Minutes that you can use.

To build the pro-forma Distribution Minutes press next. Answer the question.
Read the Summary. Lock & Load. Put in your credit card details and within 14 seconds you have your pro-forma minutes ready to use. You can email them, print them and save them onto your own hard drive. (If you don't want to pay by credit card then send to us a postal order or cheque and when recieved the document will be released to you).

Do it BEFORE the end of the financial year:

Don’t forget to do “Family Trust Distribution Minutes” before the end of the financial year. (Don’t rely on the ATO’s end of August administrative concession - it isn’t worth the risk.)

Warn your clients about Div 7A:

Last year the single biggest negligence issue suffered by accountants was over Division 7A. Clients have been unfairly asking “why didn’t my accountant tell me about Div 7A?” It is not the accountant’s job to hold your hand for 365 days of the year.

The old style of minutes don’t work:

Further, the simple days of drafting family trust distributions by allocating $772 to each minor beneficiary, a further amount to a non-working spouse with “the balance to X Pty Ltd” is gone.

There is certainly a risk of extra tax liabilities. Don’t forget that for legal purposes (unless there is something contrary in the Deed) the trust’s net income of a trust is determined under generally accepted accounting practice.

“Accounting net income” is not always “net income” tax purposes. Think about the effect of capital gains tax indexation, the carry forward of losses, accelerated tax depreciation rates, the “quarantining” of foreign losses, non-deductible provisions, and prepayments.

Does your Trust Deed require the accounting income of the trust to be distributed to beneficiaries? Have a look at Section 97. Your beneficiaries pay their tax on their “share” of the tax law “net income” of the trust. This may be a long way from the cash received.

Section 97 requires the tax law “net income” of the trust to be allocated among beneficiaries in proportion to their entitlement to accounting net income.

Use our minutes to protect the accountant & inform the client:

To protect the Accountant, and so that the client is fully made aware of obligations, we have put together a pro-forma “Family Trust Distribution” minute. The minute and Explanatory Notes make it difficult for a client to argue that their accountant never told them something. You can get your hands on these excellent pro-forma distribution minutes, for both Family Trusts and Testamentary Trusts, from www.lawcentral.com.au.

Pro-forma family trust and testamentary trust “distribution minutes”


1. Explanatory Notes

2. The pro-forma minutes are comprehensive, simple to use and highly protective.
If you purchase one for your Family Trust and it is not what you want, fax it back and we will refund your money, no questions asked.

What do I get with this document?

1. Discretionary Trust Income Minutes.
2. Discretionary Trust Distribution Minutes.
3. General Distribution on the basis of dollars or a percentage of tax payable.
4. The CGT Exemption Preservation Distribution.
5. The under 18 (not disabled) distribution.
6. The under 18 year old child with a disability resolution.
7. Where the Trustee is to pay the tax for the beneficiary.
8. Non-resident beneficiary resolution.
9. The withholding tax resolution.
10. Franking and foreign tax credits resolution.
11. Un-recouped personal capital loss Resolution.
12. Tax Exempt charity WITHOUT income tax deduction status Resolution.
13. Remaining surplus income Resolution.
14. Indefeasible Interest Resolution.
15. Taxable income exceeds accounting income and the amount of excess distributed Resolution.
16. Accounting income exceeds taxable income and the amount of excess distributed distribution.
17. Where taxable income exceeds accounting income because of capital gain, and the capital gain amount is distributed differently to accounting income distribution.
18. Further Explanatory Notes on completing Distribution Minutes.


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