Description: The article discusses an IRS private letter ruling applying the after-death distribution requirements applicable to non-qualified annuity contracts under section 72(s) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Description: This article discusses IRS Notice 2016-32.

Description: Full version of Taxing Times, December 2005, Volume 1, Issue No. 1.

Description: Year 2004 marked the first tax-filing year that certain corporate taxpayers were required to file the newly created IRS Schedule M-3–designed as a replacement for the Schedule M-1, which is used to reconcile a corporation's financial accounting income or loss with its taxable income or loss.

Description: Congress has acted in recent years to remove outdated provisions governing the federal income taxation of life insurance companies from the Internal Revenue Code. In particular, section 809 and section 815 were repealed and suspended, respectively, in 2004. This article chronicles the demise of these provisions and explains why Congress was right in removing them from the Code.

Description: This is an article about final tax regulations issued in April which provide helpful guidance on the acquisition of insurance companies pursuant to an election under section 338 of the Internal Revenue Code and assumption reinsurance of blocks of insurance when accompanied by the acquisition of other business assets.

Description: Full version of Taxing Times, February 2007, Volume 3, Issue No. 1.

Description: This article is a discussion about the life settlement industry and the tax considerations for life insurance bought and sold in the secondary market.

Description: This letter discusses answers to the question “Is Homogeneity Required to Qualify as Insurance?”

Description: This article is a discussion of the proposal to tax the inside build-up in life insurance policies and the consequences if it were to be adopted.