Description: Small Talk Newsletter, June 2005, Issue No. 24. Last fall, the Internal Revenue Service IRS released Notice 2004-61, 2004-41 I.R.B. 596 October 12, 2004, interpreting the reasonable mortality charge requirement applicable to life insurance contracts under Section 7702 of the Internal Revenue Code.

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.

Description: This 2008 supplement addresses the issues that have arisen in life insurance tax laws related to IRC 7702 and 7702A since the book was published in 2004. It also enhances and clarifies issues that were addressed in the text, adding detail and further discussion.

Description: This article provides a short history of the correction procedures previously developed to address compliance failures and the shortcomings of those procedures under sections 101f and 7702, laying the foundation for a sea change in the correction process.

Description: On January 19, 2005, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service the “Service” responded to a life insurance industry request for guidance on the treatment of qualified additional benefits “QABs” under sections 7702 and 7702A of the Internal Revenue Code through the release of Revenue Ruling 2005-6 the “Ruling”.