CustodialHolding — Beneficial owner holds title; the institution holds possession. Off balance sheet.
Contributions
Mixed
Earnings
TaxDeferred
Contribution year
CalendarYearOnly
Status
gated
Legacy code
TAR — ISCP import and statement templates only. Not identity, and not accepted by the API.
Required authority
An institution may open this account only if it satisfies every requirement group below. Within a group, any one authority suffices. Across groups, all must be satisfied.
Group
Any one of
Group 1
TrumpAccountTrustee
Resolve availability at runtime with GET https://api.a8core.io/v1/account-types. Never hard-code it.
The institution does not hold every authority this type requires.
ClientNotFound
No client matches the supplied ClientId.
FirstContributionMustBeQualifiedRollover
A rollover Trump account must be funded first by a qualified rollover contribution of the entire balance.
BeneficiaryAlreadyHasFundedTrumpAccount
There can be only one funded Trump account for an individual at any time.
IneligibleInvestment
Cash and money market funds are not eligible investments during the growth period.
Eligible assets
The row below is the account-type dimension only. What this account may actually hold is the intersection of the account-type rule, the asset-class rule, any instrument predicates, and the institution’s authority asset scope.
●Permitted◐Conditional○Not permitted
Account family
Stocks & ETFs
Mutual funds
Bonds & fixed income
Cash & money market
Real estate
Private equity & venture
Private credit & notes
Precious metals
Digital assets
Stablecoins
Trump account — growth period
◐Conditional
◐Conditional
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
○Not permitted
Eligible investments only, § 530A(b)(3). Cash and money market funds are NOT eligible investments (Notice 2025-68 Q&A D-8). See the instrument predicates.
Instrument predicates
Class-level eligibility can say conditional. It cannot say what the condition is. These are attribute predicates on the instrument, stored in InstrumentEligibilityPredicate and evaluated continuously, not only at purchase.
Predicate
Requirement
Source
InstrumentType
in MutualFund,ETF
I.R.C. § 530A(b)(3)(A)
RegisteredUnder1940Act
= true
Notice 2025-68 Q&A D-1
IsDomesticCorporation
= true
Notice 2025-68 Q&A D-1
TracksQualifiedIndex
= true
I.R.C. § 530A(b)(3)(A)(i); Q&A D-2
IndexIsSectorSpecific
= false
I.R.C. § 530A(b)(3)(B); ESG indexes are sector-specific per Q&A D-6
IndexUsCompanyWeightPct
>= 90
Notice 2025-68 Q&A D-5 safe harbor
IndexHasRegulatedFuturesContracts
= true
I.R.C. § 530A(b)(3)(B); § 1256(g)(1), (g)(7)
UsesLeverage
= false
I.R.C. § 530A(b)(3)(A)(ii); Q&A D-3
AnnualFeesAndExpensesBps
< 10
I.R.C. § 530A(b)(3)(A)(iii). Strictly less than 0.1% of net assets; Q&A D-4
Contributions
Contribution source drives two things: whether the amount counts toward the annual limit, and whether it creates basis. A free-text reason cannot express that.
Source
Counts to cap
Creates basis
Legal basis
PilotProgramContribution
No
No
I.R.C. § 6434. $1,000, once, born 2025-2028.
QualifiedGeneralContribution
No
No
I.R.C. § 530A(f). Funded by a State, the U.S., D.C., a tribal government, or a § 501(c)(3).
QualifiedRolloverContribution
No
Carries over
I.R.C. § 530A(e). Entire balance; carries over basis; must be the FIRST contribution.
Section128EmployerContribution
Yes
No
I.R.C. § 128. $2,500 per employee per year, not per dependent.
OtherContribution
Yes
Yes
I.R.C. § 530A(c)(2)(A). Creates basis. No compensation required.
There is no prior-year election. I.R.C. § 219(f)(3) does not apply. A contribution made January 31, 2027 is a 2027 contribution and cannot be applied to 2026. Every other IRA allows the prior-year attribution.
Rules that govern this type
Not subject to Treasury’s trustee selection. This is the type a A8 Core™ institution competes for.
Establishable only during the growth period, and only after the initial account exists.
Must be funded first by a qualified rollover contribution of the entire balance. Consequently there can be only one funded Trump account for an individual at any time.