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IRS Issues Guidance and Seeks Comments on LTC Insurance Product Issues
IRS Issues Guidance and Seeks Comments on LTC Insurance Product Issues On Aug. 11, 2011, the Internal Revenue Service IRS released Notice 2011-68,1 regarding the tax treatment of stand-alone and ...- Authors: Craig R Springfield, Bryan W Keene
- Date: Feb 2012
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Long-term Care>Long-term care insurance; Public Policy
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IRS Addresses Tax Treatment of Non-Qualified Annuities Issued to Trusts
IRS Addresses Tax Treatment of Non-Qualified Annuities Issued to Trusts The article analyzes Private Letter Ruling 202031008, which considers how Internal Revenue Code sections 72(q) and (u) ...- Authors: Eric Lanning, Bryan W Keene
- Date: Nov 2020
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Annuities; Annuities>Individual annuities; Annuities>Marketing and distribution - Annuities; Annuities>Payout annuities; Public Policy; Annuities>Deferred annuities
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Life Settlements: Congress Wades Into the Fray
Life Settlements: Congress Wades Into the Fray Article examines a proposed amendment to the MAP-21 Act that would have changed a number of tax requirements regarding so-called life settlements.- Authors: John Adney, Bryan W Keene
- Date: Oct 2012
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Health & Disability; Life Insurance; Public Policy
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IRS Confirms Annuity Status of “Contingent Annuity Contracts”
IRS Confirms Annuity Status of “Contingent Annuity Contracts” A discussion of the three private letter rulings addressing the tax treatment of group insurance contingent annuity contracts ...- Authors: Bryan W Keene, Joseph F McKeever
- Date: May 2010
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Public Policy
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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 ...- 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
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The Demise of Sections 809 and 815
The Demise of Sections 809 and 815 Congress has acted in recent years to remove outdated provisions governing the federal income taxation of life insurance companies from the Internal Revenue ...- Authors: William B Harman, Douglas N Hertz, Bryan W Keene
- Date: May 2006
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
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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 ...- 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
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Guidance Released on COLI Best Practice Rules
Guidance Released on COLI Best Practice Rules A brief overview of the rules for corporate owned life insurance in section 101j and then summarizes the guidance contained in the IRS notice. Death ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Bryan W Keene, Joel Winston Mann
- Date: Sep 2009
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Life Insurance; Public Policy
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Recent IRS Rulings Highlight Investor Control Issues for Fund of Funds Arrangements
Recent IRS Rulings Highlight Investor Control Issues for Fund of Funds Arrangements The article summarizes several recent private letter rulings from the IRS addressing the "investor ...- Authors: Bryan W Keene, John Adney
- Date: Jun 2017
- Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Annuities>Individual annuities; Annuities>Investment strategy - Annuities; Annuities>Policyholder behavior - Annuities; Annuities>Variable annuities; Public Policy
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Partial Exchange Guidance Keeps Improving
Partial Exchange Guidance Keeps Improving This article begins with an overview of how the tax treatment of partial exchanges has evolved over the last decade or so, including the concerns that ...- Authors: Application Administrator, Bryan W Keene
- Date: Feb 2012
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Taxing Times
- Topics: Annuities; Public Policy