Mississippi Principal and Income Act of 2013; revise provisions relating to partial liquidation.
HB 991 amends Mississippi's trust accounting rules to clarify how trustees handle money received from entities during partial liquidations (when an entity sells part of its assets). It requires trustees to reallocate a portion of funds initially classified as "principal" (trust assets) to "income" (current earnings) to cover federal and state income taxes on those distributions. This directly affects trustees managing trusts and their beneficiaries when trusts receive such payments from entities like corporations or investment funds. The change simplifies tax handling by mandating that tax costs be covered from the principal allocation, rather than adding to the beneficiary's tax burden. The bill focuses solely on procedural trust accounting adjustments without creating new programs or altering broader tax policy.
Bill status
died
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 14, 2025
Last action Mar 4, 2025
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This bill updates Mississippi's Principal and Income Act rules for how trustees classify money received from partial liquidations of entities like corporations or investment trusts. The key change adds a new provision allowing trustees to exclude from principal allocation amounts that don't exceed the income tax that must be paid on the distribution, reducing the taxable impact for beneficiaries. The bill also clarifies the threshold for partial liquidation by specifying it applies to gross total assets rather than just total assets.
Scope change
The bill maintains the same scope but modifies how partial liquidation distributions are calculated and treated for tax purposes.
REQUIREMENT
Added a new provision allowing trustees to exclude from principal allocation any amount of a partial liquidation distribution that does not exceed the income tax that must be paid on the taxable income of the distributing entity
DEFINITION
Changed the partial liquidation threshold calculation from 'total assets' to 'gross total assets' in the financial statements
TECHNICAL
Updated formatting and header information to reflect the bill as passed by the House rather than as originally introduced
Floor votes · House Feb 13, 2025
How they voted
112–2
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 119
Feb 13, 2025
D
Democratic39
92% Yea
I
Independent2
100% Yea
R
Republican78
94% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
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Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
7
Key actions
2
Committee
3
Feb 17, 2025
Committee
Referred To Judiciary, Division A
upper
Feb 14, 2025
Introduced
Transmitted To Senate
lower
Feb 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Passed
lower
Jan 30, 2025
Lower · Passed
Title Suff Do Pass
lower
Jan 17, 2025
Committee
Referred To Business and Commerce
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Hank Zuber
RRepublican
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