Description: Article from The Actuary, November 1986, Volume 20, No. 9 on the taxation of insurance companies, Act of 1986. In this article, we concentrate on the corporate income tax, and how the Act affects the taxation of insurance companies.

Description: The recent Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2007, Pub. L. 110-172, signed into law on Dec. 29, 2007, includes a provision that permits a taxpayer to select positions in a straddle and thereby avoid surprise applications of the straddle rules by the IRS on audit.

Description: Two relatively recent developments have heightened tax managers’ anxiety concerning the possible disclosure of tax accrual workpapers.

Description: Comparison of statutory and tax accounting rules in treatment of non-performing assets.

Description: Discussions on: 1. tax deductability of surrender losses of life insurance contracts 2. the IRS questioning of the immediate drop in asset values for variable product valuations 3. the analysis of risk distribution in the context of reinsurance and 4. Life Company Net Operating Loss NOL Carryback.

Description: Editor highlights three of the issue's articles and gives thanks to the departing assistant editor.

Description: A discussion of the plans for the Taxation Section including educational offerings, seminars and the section newsletter.

Description: Presented at May 1985 Spring Meeting. This session discussed: Tax change, Product line allocation, Stock and mutual company considerations, Generally accepted accounting principles deferred taxes, Accounting for life/life and life/nonlife tax consolidations, Tax sharing agreements among affiliated companies, Reinsurance agreement impact, Conflicts between tax planning and solvency considerations.

Description: This session discussion is about FAS 96, the timing and measurement of the deferred tax effects, alternative minimum tax considerations, worksheets versus models, small company effective tax rate, consolidation returns and incorporating future tax strategies. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 2.

Description: Experts discuss: [1] an overview of U.S. taxation of life-insurance income from 'controlled foreign corporations' [CFCs], [2] the actuarial aspects of the taxation of CFCs, and [3] taxation issues relative to minority-owned [not 'controlled'] foreign corporations. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.