Description: 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium addresses three tax issues from the Deficit Reducation Act - DEFRA including the cost-of-living adjustment - COLA benefit in the disabled life reserve calculation, recognizing reinsurance in the tax reserve calculation and deferred and uncollected premium reserve adjustments in health insurance. It also covers recent reinsurance developments.

Description: This session presented at the SOA's April 1976 Washington D.C. Meeting provides information on the impact of inflation on Life Insurer Income Tax and Tax Liability and the impact that the U.S. tax policy on investments, jobs and inflation.

Description: A summary and analysis of REG-103163-18, the proposed regulations providing guidance for property-casualty loss reserve discounting (LRD) under IRC Section 846.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers alternative minimum tax including deferred acquisition costs, investment planning and new legislative proposals.

Description: Various insurer corporate tax issues are discussed as well as some court cases involving insurer taxes, including the recent USAA Life case involving preliminary term reserves on universal life business. First part of two-part Session 6 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium. See 'The New DAC Tax' for second part with presentations by Sikora or Eldridge.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Boston Meeting reviews recent U.S. regulatory and tax developments, U.S. product taxation issues including corporate-owned life insurance COLI and certificate of deposit CD annuities and a summary of recent Canadian income tax developments. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 4b.

Description: This article discusses the June 23, 1977 Supreme Court ruling that a life insurance company must include the net valuation portion but not the associated loading of deferred and uncollected premiums in its assets and gross premium income as well as in its reserves in computing its tax liability. Some companies have been using this procedure or a modification of it for the past few years. Other companies have been filing returns conforming to IRS regulations which required including gross deferred and uncollected premiums. These companies may need to file amended returns for open tax years if they paid taxes not due or understated usable operations/loss carry forwards. The author then goes on to review the implications of the court’s decision for companies filing amended returns.

Description: Year 2004 marked the first tax-filing year that certain corporate taxpayers were required to file the newly created IRS Schedule M-3–designed as a replacement for the Schedule M-1, which is used to reconcile a corporation's financial accounting income or loss with its taxable income or loss.

Description: This is an article about final tax regulations issued in April which provide helpful guidance on the acquisition of insurance companies pursuant to an election under section 338 of the Internal Revenue Code and assumption reinsurance of blocks of insurance when accompanied by the acquisition of other business assets.

Description: This article is a discussion about the life settlement industry and the tax considerations for life insurance bought and sold in the secondary market.