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  • Tax Aspects of VA CARVM aka Actuarial Guideline XLIII
    Tax Aspects of VA CARVM aka Actuarial Guideline XLIII This article provides the reader with some insights regarding tax planning under the new required methodology. Annuity reserves;Assumptions; ...

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    • Authors: Edward Robbins, Michael LeBoeuf, Victor Akin
    • Date: Feb 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting
  • Effective Date and Statutory Reserves Capping Issues under Actuarial Guideline XLIII
    Effective Date and Statutory Reserves Capping Issues under Actuarial Guideline XLIII A discussion of the effective dates and statutory reserves cap for variable annuities under Actuarial ...

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    • Authors: Peter Winslow
    • Date: Feb 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting
  • ACLI Update Column
    ACLI Update Column After nearly a decade of work by ACLI and representatives of its member companies, the Society of Actuaries SOA, the American Academy of Actuaries Academy, and the NAIC’s Life ...

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    • Authors: Bill Elwell
    • Date: Feb 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Reserves - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting
  • T3: Taxing Times Tidbits
    T3: Taxing Times Tidbits A discussion of, first, the three-year transition period for adopting principle-based reserves and how it might not apply to tax reserves, and second, the tax impact of ...

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    • Authors: Kory Olsen, Peter Winslow
    • Date: Feb 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Financial Reporting & Accounting>Tax accounting; Life Insurance
  • IRS Approves Annuity Treatment for Term Certain Variable Payout
    IRS Approves Annuity Treatment for Term Certain Variable Payout The article discusses a recent IRS private letter ruling granting IRC section 72(b) exclusion ratio treatment for amounts received ...

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    • Authors: John Adney
    • Date: Oct 2014
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Public Policy
  • Variable Annuity Hedging Directive – A Long and Winding Road
    Variable Annuity Hedging Directive – A Long and Winding Road This article outlines the IRS directive published in July 2014, which provides a safe harbor treatment for variable annuity hedging ...

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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
  • Surprising Investor Control Advice from IRS
    Surprising Investor Control Advice from IRS The IRS believes that any segregated asset account comprised of a pool of individual securities will run afoul of the investor control doctrine. This ...

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    • Authors: Bryan W Keene, Joseph F McKeever
    • Date: May 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Life Insurance; Public Policy
  • How Are Tax Reserves for VAGLB Determined for Pre-2010 Contracts?
    How Are Tax Reserves for VAGLB Determined for Pre-2010 Contracts? Discusses the problem with the computation of tax reserves for VA contracts with Guaranteed Living Benefit riders that were ...

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    • Authors: Michael LeBoeuf, Peter Winslow
    • Date: May 2011
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities
  • Rev. Proc. 2008-41—Correction of Inadvertent Diversification Failures
    Rev. Proc. 2008-41—Correction of Inadvertent Diversification Failures This article discusses a new procedure for correcting inadvertent failures to satisfy the diversification requirements ...

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    • Authors: Bryan W Keene, Joseph F McKeever
    • Date: Feb 2009
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Taxing Times
    • Topics: Annuities>Variable annuities; Life Insurance; Public Policy