Description: This session from the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium looks at issues concerned with Life and Annuity Valuation, specifically meeting the 50 States Requirements, meeting the NAIC Actuarial Guidelines of valuation requirements, Guideline XXX and its implications and the use of new optional 15-year select factors to be applied to the 1980 CSO.

Description: The article addresses the safe harbor guidance provided in Notice 2016-63 for 2017 CSO contracts satisfying the section 7702 reasonable mortality requirements

Description: ACLI's comments to Treasury and IRS on industry-related guidance.

Description: This article provides an update on various legislative and regulatory activities including, allowing individual variable annuities, federal standard for fiductiary responsibitlity with respect to pensions, policy loan interest rate and credit insurance issues.

Description: This article explores the complexities and potential problems with respect to tax reserves that could result from a retroactive application of a principle-based reserves PBR approach for life insurance reserves.

Description: A discussion of the Open Transaction Doctrine and how it was applied to prevent current inclusion of taxable gains resulting from the sale of stock acquired in a demutualization.

Description: In March 2010, Congress codified the judicial economic substance doctrine in an effort to raise revenue as part of the health care reform legislation.1 The law provides for strict liability penalties of 20 percent for understated taxes and refund claims that result from transactions that lack economic substance. In July 2011, the commissioner of the Large Businessand International Division LB&I of the IRS evidently recognized this state of uncertainty and issued very helpful guidance to all LB&I examiners to fill the void on guidance for economic substance..

Description: On May 16th, the Social Security Boards of Trustees sent to the Congress the three annual reports OASDI, HI, and SMI. These reports present cost projections similar to those provided to the Congress last year at the time of enactment of the 1977 Amendments.

Description: Article The Pensions Scene In Canada by Ezra in The Actuary, September 1978, Volume 12, Number 7

Description: This article is based on a third party administrator study and explores the relationships between family structure, spare capacity and health care utilization.