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Allocation

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The apportionment or designation of an item for a specific purpose or to a particular place.

In the law of trusts, the allocation of cash dividends earned by a stock that makes up the principal of a trust for a beneficiary usually means that the dividends will be treated as income to be paid to the beneficiary. The allocation of stock dividends generally means that such dividends will be added to the shares of stock held as principal, thereby increasing its size.


ALLOCATION, Eng. law. An allowance upon account in the Exchequer; or rather, placing or adding to a thing. Ency. Lond.


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The IRS issued final regulations (TD 9208) clarifying how taxpayers may (1) avoid application of the automatic generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax exemption allocation rules applicable to transfers to a GST trust and (2) terminate such an election.
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Realization and allocation are central concepts of current GAAP, but they are the very reason why GAAP does such a poor job of reporting the real-world effects of economic events.
 
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