Death and taxes. Two things in life we find unavoidable. Although there are ways for decreasing your tax deduction, there are no ways from getting away from the tax man. To put it simple, everything we touch is taxed, from our incomes to the profits made on the sale from stocks and real estate, even down to assets we get from an inheritance. Likewise can be said of trust funds, which have an association with both death and taxes. But how specifically are these estate instruments taxed, and what exactly are they? Keep reading and find out more about these instruments and how they’re reported to the Internal Revenue Service.<\/p>\n