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An employee must include in gross income for Federal income tax purposes an amount equal to the cost of group-term life insurance coverage on the employee's life to the extent that the cost of the coverage exceeds the sum of $50,000 plus the amount (if any) paid by the employee to purchase the coverage.
Corporate-owned life insurance ( COLI ), is life insurance on employees' lives that is owned by the employer, with benefits payable either to the employer or directly to the employee's families. Other names for the practice include janitor's insurance and dead peasants insurance. When the employer is a bank, the insurance is known as a bank ...
A life settlement is the legal sale of an existing life insurance policy (typically of seniors) for more than its cash surrender value, but less than its net death benefit, to a third party investor. [1] The investor assumes the financial responsibility for ongoing premiums and receives the death benefit when the insured dies.
The first caveat is that any interest paid on life insurance benefits counts as taxable interest. For example, if the decedent died on Feb. 1 but the proceeds weren’t paid to the beneficiary ...
Section 7702 of the IRC defines life insurance contracts for taxation purposes. Specifically, this part of the code is used to distinguish genuine insurance contracts from investment products that ...
When beneficiaries receive a payout from a life insurance policy, they typically don't have to pay taxes. However, there are a few situations where a portion of the life insurance benefit is ...
Modified endowment contract. A modified endowment contract (MEC) is a cash value life insurance contract in the United States where the premiums paid have exceeded the amount allowed to keep the full tax treatment of a cash value life insurance policy. In a modified endowment contract, distributions of cash value are taken from taxable gains ...
Universal life insurance. Universal life insurance (often shortened to UL) is a type of cash value [1] life insurance, sold primarily in the United States. Under the terms of the policy, the excess of premium payments above the current cost of insurance is credited to the cash value of the policy, which is credited each month with interest. The ...