Sec. 21. (a) A trustee shall allocate an income receipt or disbursement other than one to which section 18(a)(1) of this chapter applies to principal if its due date occurs before:

(1) an individual dies in the case of an estate; or

(2) an income interest begins in the case of a trust or successive income interest.

(b) A trustee shall allocate an income receipt or disbursement to income if its due date occurs on or after the date on which an individual dies or an income interest begins and it is a periodic due date. An income receipt or disbursement must be treated as accruing from day to day if its due date is not periodic or it has no due date. The portion of the receipt or disbursement accruing before the date on which an individual dies or an income interest begins must be allocated to principal, and the balance must be allocated to income.

(c) An item of income or an obligation is due on the date the payer is required to make a payment. If a payment date is not stated, there is no due date for the purposes of this chapter. Distributions to shareholders or other owners from an entity to which section 23 of this chapter applies are considered to be due on:

(1) the date fixed by the entity for determining who is entitled to receive the distribution; or

(2) if no date is fixed, the declaration date for the distribution.

A due date is periodic for receipts or disbursements that must be paid at regular intervals under a lease or an obligation to pay interest or if an entity customarily makes distributions at regular intervals.

(d) This section applies only for purposes of determining which income receipts and disbursements of a trust are to be taken into account in determining the net income of the trust for the period after the beginning and before the end of a beneficiary's income interest. Although this section provides for certain income receipts and disbursements to be allocated to principal, this section does not control the initial classification of receipts and disbursements as between principal and income. Amounts received by a trust from a decedent's estate or another trust as a distribution of principal may be allocable to principal under section 24 of this chapter, even to the extent the amounts received include income receipts of the distributing estate or trust received or accrued after the beneficiary's income interest begins.

As added by P.L.84-2002, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.51-2014, SEC.16.