Description: In session 75 PD of the New York Annual Meeting panelists explore practical considerations of maintaining compliance with federal income tax definition of life insurance rules. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: Guidance and interpretation regarding reasonable mortality charge requirement of Section 7702, based from IRS Notice 2004-61, 2004-41 I.R.B. 596 of October 12, 2004.

Description: Panel discussion of national, state, and provincial developments in health care policy and regulation. Presented at the 1975 annual meeting.

Description: This presentation is a concurrent session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held April 18-19 in New Orleans. In this life insurance product tax session, attorneys representing the American Council of Life Insurance ACLI, the Internal revenue Service, ‘IRS,’ and the law firm of Davis & Harman discuss the status of recent IRS Private Letter Rulings, current activities of the American Council of Life Insurance, ‘ACLI,’ and other topics including the international reach of Internal Revenue Code sections 7702 and 7702A. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 1.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session discussion is about the impact of RBC on product design. Topics included: 1. An overview of the regulatory aspects of RBC. 2. How to incorporate RBC into the pricing of insurance products. 3. The small company perspective 4. The application of marginal RBC analysis. 5. A preliminary analysis on RBC covariance between product lines.

Description: Last March, Congress passed and the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act followed by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, which amended the former collectively, the “Act”. The article provides a brief background on the passage of the Act generally and the creation of the new Investment Income Tax in particular compares the existing provisions of the HI tax with the newly enacted provisions, and it then analyzes the import of the Investment Income Tax for annuities and, possibly, life insurance contracts. The article concludes with thoughts on the potential effect of the new tax on the annuity marketplace.

Description: This session dealt with Regulatory Considerations in Group Insurance. Topics included: 1. National health insurance. 2. Federal hospital cost control programs. 3. Non-discrimination legislation and regulation. 4. Multiple- employer trusts. 5. Impact of recent OASDI financing changes. 6. Changes in mandatory retirement age on group insurance.

Description: This article reviews the definition of “cash surrender value” in section 7702f2A and in the regulations proposed under that provision but never finalized. The discussion then recaps the 2005 Rulings and describes the recently issued letter rulings.

Description: A discussion of the proposed safe harbor with respect to calculations for contracts where the insured reaches age 100.

Description: The Internal Revenue Service issued its seminal ruling interpreting Internal Revenal Code section 7702A[c][3][B][i], commonly referred to as the Necessary Premium Test [NPT]. The purpose of the NPT is to shelter certain death benefit increases from material change status, avoiding the 7 pay test's reapplication on their account.