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  • Variable Annuity Hedging Directive – A Long and Winding Road
    Variable Annuity Hedging Directive – A Long and Winding Road This article outlines the IRS directive ... provides a safe harbor treatment for variable annuity hedging gains and losses relating to VA contracts ...

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    • Authors: Timothy Branch
    • Date: Oct 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting; Public Policy
  • Deactivating the Weapons of Mass Volatility: The Dodd-Frank Act, Section 1256 and the Taxation of Derivatives
    volatility in taxable income. While section 1601’s “fix” for these concerns is not perfect, for the ... departure from the concept of income realization in the U.S. tax law.”5 Thus, a contract sub- ject to section ...

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    • Authors: John R Newton
    • Date: May 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives