Description: A discussion about the Taxation Section goals and accomplishments including meetings, webinar program, volunteering and research activities.

Description: Author highlights historical nonforfeiture and federal tax law changes, as they have impacted life product designs, in prognosticating about future product designs.

Description: Author traces the tax treatment of deficiency reserves, beginning with the 1959 Act, illustrating how the decisions made in the development of the 1959 Act continue to affect the tax treatment of those reserves today.

Description: This paper discusses which life insurance products are qualified under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code so that the death benefit proceeds are excluded from the taxable income of the beneficiary. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 1.

Description: This article discusses risk transfer and how difficult it is to define and describe. For actuaries, the challenge is to develop an analytical framework under which the presence of insurance risk can be identified and assessed.

Description: The interaction of section 7702 cash value accumulation test [CVAT] and state nonforfeiture laws [SNFL] create a dual limitation on traditional life insurance contratcs. CVAT limiting the maximum permissible cash value and SNFL requiring a minimum cash surrender value. This article examines these dual limitations.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about the growth in life insurance from 1970 -1990 as compared to the general economic growth.

Description: A roundtable discussion of the new international accounting standards and the possible implications for all insurers.

Description: A discussion about the taxation of life insurance companies and affiliated products and the ramifications it has annuity contracts and long-term care.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 San Francisco Spring Meeting covers individual life products including the state of the market, sales results, new ideas and regulatory developments.