Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses proposals for changing the tax law with respect to the taxation of personal income: The tax climate that led to these proposals, A description of the major proposals including the Treasury proposal pending in Congress, How these proposals will affect the design, marketing and sale of individual life and annuity products.

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.