The Committee on Finance of the United States Senate has made available for public comment a draft bill which would amend the Internal Revenue Code to disallow the deduction of excess non-taxed reinsurance premiums paid to affiliates with respect to United States risks. There is no published comment period. The Committee’s staff has prepared a “technical explanation” of the draft, which includes an analysis of the present tax rules for insurance companies and reinsurance as well as an analysis of the proposed changes to the tax code. In an October 8, 2008 post, we profiled a similar bill introduced in the House, H.R. 6969. Opposition to the proposed tax changes has been submitted by the CEA, the European insurance and reinsurance federation.
This post written by Rollie Goss.