Description: Congress has acted in recent years to remove outdated provisions governing the federal income taxation of life insurance companies from the Internal Revenue Code. In particular, section 809 and section 815 were repealed and suspended, respectively, in 2004. This article chronicles the demise of these provisions and explains why Congress was right in removing them from the Code.

Description: A change in the way in which statutory life insurance and annuity reserves are determined in the United States is heading toward adoption. Currently, the Actuarial Opinion and Memorandum Regulation AOMR combines formulaic factor-based minimum reserves with reserve adequacy testing. The American Academy of Actuaries Academy is working with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners NAIC to finalize the basic framework of a principles-based reserve PBR methodology, based on a gross premium valuation, for life insurance products. The NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force LHATF has also been considering Actuarial Guideline VACARVM that would introduce a PBR method for the valuation of variable annuity contracts.

Description: This paper describes the Federal Income Tax FIT treatment of reserves historically. Then it describes Principles-Based Reserves PBR. Finally, it discusses issues in the treatment of PBR under FIT.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Salt Lake City Meeting reviews the status of Federal Income Taxation with respect to Life Insurance Companies, Policyholder Taxation and the Current Legislative Outlook.

Description: Full version of Taxing Times, May 2005, Volume 1, Issue No. 1.

Description: The rules governing the tax treatment of distributions from life insurance or annuity contracts are complex. Worse, the relevant IRC section, section 72, seems at times to be the product of a conspiracy in restraint of understanding.

Description: This discussion looked at defining tax parity between mutual companies and stock companies as well as the consequences of failure to achieve tax parity.

Description: Panelists discuss and debate existing tax laws and expected changes to tax laws relating to: taxation of mutual and stock life companies [Sec. 809], taxation of 'investment-oriented' products [Sec. 7702], and the federal government's continued need for 'revenue enhancement.' From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 3.

Description: Full version of Taxing Times, May 2006, Volume 2, Issue No. 1.

Description: 1992 SOA Regional Meeting, Anaheim. This session addressed tax compliance, the tax consequences of life insurance contract failure, the correction of failed contracts, and a 1992 update on the proposed deferred acquisition cost tax regulations.