Description: Updated discussion of IRS Proposed Regulations under Section 162(m)(6), their potential impact upon the life insurance industry, and a 2 percent de minimis exception.

Description: Read the February 2017 issue of Taxing Times published by the The Taxation Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This 1976 article discusses provincial regulation of private pensions in Canada, with a focus on Manitoba’s legislation, expected to be operative later in the year, and how it compares to regulation in other provinces.

Description: This article on insurance regulation discusses the highlights of the Optional Federal Charter OFC – current developments, its opponents and proponents, accounting implications, and implications for small insurers.

Description: Section 807d of the IRC provides that the deductible reserve for a life insurance contract is the greater of net surrender value or the Federally Prescribed Reserve FPR calculated under prescribed interest rate and mortality assumptions, but in no event can the tax reserve exceed “aggregate statutory reserves” i.e., the statutory cap. This article logically concludes that deficiency reserves are included in the calculation of the statutory cap.

Description: The Chairperson of the Taxation Section discusses how the section will deal with changes to the US Tax Code.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: Article about the future roles in health insurance.

Description: Consensus of viewpoints from a group discussion on economic forecasting at the March meeting of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Description: This is a transcript of a session at the Spring 1975 meeting in NY and highlights disclosure and cost comparison, equal opportunities and human rights legislation and impact on ways of doing business. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 1, No. 2.