Description: This paper examines five problematic areas of the Life Insurance Company Income Tax Act of 1959 including the 10-for-1 rule, the deduction for investment income on qualified pension and profit-sharing plans, limitations on certain deductions, policyholder surplus account and shareholders surplus account. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol. 28.

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.

Description: Updates on partial annuitization and exhanges, prevailing CSO valuation mortality tables, disclosure of offshore accounts through FATCA.

Description: Insurance companies will be required to file the Internal Revenue Service IRS Schedule M-3 for tax years ending on or after Dec. 31, 2006. Schedule M-3 was designed by the IRS 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.