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: This article discusses tax and accounting issues that arise under a recently-issued Chief Counsel Advice in which the IRS applied a life insurance company tax rule to a nonlife company that issues life insurance products

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.

Description: This panel at the SOA 1982 Orlando Spring Meeting discusses tax parity for individual life insurance companies and products. The focus is on some of the very basic issues of taxation as the industry begins planning for a longer range solution to the issues posed by the current tax structure.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Hollywood, Florida Meeting reviews updates to federal taxation legislation relating to insurance including pensions and ERISA, 401k plans, employee benefit plan taxation and new code Section 7702. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 4.

Description: Frequently Asked Questions on tax reserve methods and assumptions, based on law in effect prior to 12/31/2017.

Description: Addresses the question: “If it is accepted that reserves should be pre-tax, why should required capital be post-tax?”

Description: Dialogue between Peter Winslow, a tax attorney, and Edward Robbins and Christian DesRochers, tax actuaries, on selected tax issues related to proposals to change statutory reserving from a formula-based methodology to a principles-based approach.