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26 U.S.C. § 801 — Tax imposed

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26 U.S.C. § 801 — Tax imposed

**(a) Tax imposed** A tax is hereby imposed for each taxable year on the life insurance company taxable income of every life insurance company. Such tax shall consist of a tax computed as provided in section 11 as though the life insurance company taxable income were the taxable income referred to in section 11. **(b) Life insurance company taxable income** For purposes of this part, the term “life insurance company taxable income” means— (1) life insurance gross income, reduced by (2) life insurance deductions.

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**(a) Tax imposed** A tax is hereby imposed for each taxable year on the life insurance company taxable income of every life insurance company. Such tax shall consist of a tax computed as provided in section 11 as though the life insurance company taxable income were the taxable income referred to in section 11. **(b) Life insurance company taxable income** For purposes of this part, the term “life insurance company taxable income” means— (1) life insurance gross income, reduced by (2) life insurance deductions.

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26 U.S.C. § 845 — Certain reinsurance agreements

**(a) Allocation in case of reinsurance agreement involving tax avoidance or evasion** In the case of 2 or more related persons (within the meaning of section 482) who are parties to a reinsurance agreement (or where one of the parties to a reinsurance agreement is, with respect to any contract covered by the agreement, in effect an agent of another party to such agreement or a conduit between related persons), the Secretary may— (1) allocate between or among such persons income (whether investment income, premium, or otherwise), deductions, assets, reserves, credits, and other items related to such agreement, (2) recharacterize any such items, or (3) make any other adjustment, if he determines that such allocation, recharacterization, or adjustment is necessary to reflect the proper amount, source, or character of the taxable income (or any item described in paragraph (1) relating to such taxable income) of each such person. **(b) Reinsurance contract having significant tax avoidance effect** If the Secretary determines that any reinsurance contract has a significant tax avoidance effect on any party to such contract, the Secretary may make proper adjustments with respect to such party to eliminate such tax avoidance effect (including treating such contract with respect to such party as terminated on December 31 of each year and reinstated on January 1 of the next year).

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26 U.S.C. § 809 — Repealed. Pub. L. 108–218, title II, § 205(a), Apr. 10, 2004, 118 Stat. 610]

### Statutory Notes Section, added Pub. L. 98–369, div. A, title II, § 211(a), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 733; amended Pub. L. 99–514, title XVIII, § 1821(d)–(h), (r), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2839, 2840, 2843; Pub. L. 100–647, title I, § 1018(u)(47), Nov. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 3593; Pub. L. 107–147, title VI, § 611(a), Mar. 9, 2002, 116 Stat. 61, related to reduction in certain deductions of mutual life insurance companies. A prior section 809, added Pub. L. 86–69, § 2(a), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 121; amended Pub. L. 87–59, § 2(a), (b), June 27, 1961, 75 Stat. 120; Pub. L. 87–790, § 3(a), Oct. 10, 1962, 76 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 87–858, § 3(b)(3), (c), Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1137; Pub. L. 88–272, title II, §§ 214(b)(4), 228(a), Feb. 26, 1964, 78 Stat. 55, 98; Pub. L. 91–172, title II, § 201(a)(2)(C), title IX, § 907(c)(2)(B), Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 558, 717; Pub. L. 94–455, title XV, § 1508(a), title XIX, §§ 1901(a)(98), (b)(1)(J)(iv), (L)–(N), 33(G), 1906(b)(13)(A), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1741, 1781, 1791, 1801, 1834; Pub. L. 97–248, title II, §§ 255(b)(2)–(4), 259(a), 264(c)(2), (3), Sept. 3, 1982, 96 Stat. 534, 538, 544; Pub. L. 97–448, title I, § 102(m)(1), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2374, related to general provisions regarding gain and loss from operations, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 98–369, § 211(a). #### Effective Date of Repeal Repeal applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2004, see section 205(c) of Pub. L. 108–218, set out as an Effective Date of 2004 Amendment note under [section 807 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section807&num=0&edition=prelim).

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26 U.S.C. § 816 — Life insurance company defined

**(a) Life insurance company defined** For purposes of this subtitle, the term “life insurance company” means an insurance company which is engaged in the business of issuing life insurance and annuity contracts (either separately or combined with accident and health insurance), or noncancellable contracts of health and accident insurance, if— (1) its life insurance reserves (as defined in subsection (b)), plus (2) unearned premiums, and unpaid losses (whether or not ascertained), on noncancellable life, accident, or health policies not included in life insurance reserves, comprise more than 50 percent of its total reserves (as defined in subsection (c)). For purposes of the preceding sentence, the term “insurance company” means any company more than half of the business of which during the taxable year is the issuing of insurance or annuity contracts or the reinsuring of risks underwritten by insurance companies. **(b) Life insurance reserves defined** (1) **In general** — For purposes of this part, the term “life insurance reserves” means amounts— (A) which are computed or estimated on the basis of recognized mortality or morbidity tables and assumed rates of interest, and (B) which are set aside to mature or liquidate, either by payment or reinsurance, future unaccrued claims arising from life insurance, annuity, and noncancellable accident and health insurance contracts (including life insurance or annuity contracts combined with noncancellable accident and health insurance) involving, at the time with respect to which the reserve is computed, life, accident, or health contingencies. (2) **Reserves must be required by law** — Except— (A) in the case of policies covering life, accident, and health insurance combined in one policy issued on the weekly pr

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26 U.S.C. § 11 — Tax imposed

**(a) Corporations in general** A tax is hereby imposed for each taxable year on the taxable income of every corporation. **(b) Amount of tax** The amount of the tax imposed by subsection (a) shall be 21 percent of taxable income. **(c) Exceptions** Subsection (a) shall not apply to a corporation subject to a tax imposed by— (1) section 594 (relating to mutual savings banks conducting life insurance business), (2) subchapter L (sec. 801 and following, relating to insurance companies), or (3) subchapter M (sec. 851 and following, relating to regulated investment companies and real estate investment trusts). **(d) Foreign corporations** In the case of a foreign corporation, the taxes imposed by subsection (a) and section 55 shall apply only as provided by section 882.

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26 U.S.C. § 815 — Repealed. Pub. L. 115–97, title I, § 13514(a), Dec. 22, 2017, 131 Stat. 2143]

### Statutory Notes Section, added Pub. L. 98–369, div. A, title II, § 211(a), July 18, 1984, 98 Stat. 747; amended Pub. L. 99–514, title X, § 1011(b)(10), title XVIII, § 1821(k)(1), (2), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2389, 2841; Pub. L. 100–647, title I, § 1010(j)(1), Nov. 10, 1988, 102 Stat. 3456; Pub. L. 108–357, title VII, § 705(a), Oct. 22, 2004, 118 Stat. 1549; Pub. L. 113–295, div. A, title II, § 221(a)(41)(G), Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 4044, related to distributions to shareholders from pre-1984 policyholders surplus account. A prior section 815, added Pub. L. 86–69, § 2(a), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 129; amended Pub. L. 87–790, § 3(b), Oct. 10, 1962, 76 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 87–858, § 3(b)(4), (e), Oct. 23, 1962, 76 Stat. 1137; Pub. L. 88–571, §§ 2, 3(a), 4(a), Sept. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 857, 859; Pub. L. 90–225, § 4(a), (b), Dec. 27, 1967, 81 Stat. 733, 734; Pub. L. 91–172, title IX, § 907(b), Dec. 30, 1969, 83 Stat. 715; Pub. L. 94–331, § 1(a), June 30, 1976, 90 Stat. 781; Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, §§ 1901(b)(1)(O), (24), (33)(H), 1906(b)(13)(A), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1791, 1798, 1801, 1834, contained provisions similar to this section, prior to the general revision of this part by Pub. L. 98–369, § 211(a). #### Effective Date of Repeal Repeal applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 2017, see section 13514(c) of Pub. L. 115–97, set out as an Effective Date of 2017 Amendment note under [section 801 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section801&num=0&edition=prelim).

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26 U.S.C. § 1016 — Adjustments to basis

**(a) General rule** Proper adjustment in respect of the property shall in all cases be made— (1) for expenditures, receipts, losses, or other items, properly chargeable to capital account, but no such adjustment shall be made— (A) for— (i) taxes or other carrying charges described in section 266; or (ii) expenditures described in section 173 (relating to circulation expenditures), for which deductions have been taken by the taxpayer in determining taxable income for the taxable year or prior taxable years; or (B) for mortality, expense, or other reasonable charges incurred under an annuity or life insurance contract; (2) in respect of any period since February 28, 1913, for exhaustion, wear and tear, obsolescence, amortization, and depletion, to the extent of the amount— (A) allowed as deductions in computing taxable income under this subtitle or prior income tax laws, and (B) resulting (by reason of the deductions so allowed) in a reduction for any taxable year of the taxpayer’s taxes under this subtitle (other than chapter 2, relating to tax on self-employment income), or prior income, war-profits, or excess-profits tax laws, but not less than the amount allowable under this subtitle or prior income tax laws. Where no method has been adopted under section 167 (relating to depreciation deduction), the amount allowable shall be determined under the straight line method. Subparagraph (B) of this paragraph shall not apply in respect of any period since February 28, 1913, and before January 1, 1952, unless an election has been made under section 1020 (as in effect before the date of the enactment of the Tax Reform Act of 1976). Where for any taxable year before the taxable year 1932 the depletion allowance was based on discovery value or a pe

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26 U.S.C. § 1035 — Certain exchanges of insurance policies

**(a) General rules** No gain or loss shall be recognized on the exchange of— (1) a contract of life insurance for another contract of life insurance or for an endowment or annuity contract or for a qualified long-term care insurance contract; (2) a contract of endowment insurance (A) for another contract of endowment insurance which provides for regular payments beginning at a date not later than the date payments would have begun under the contract exchanged, or (B) for an annuity contract, or (C) for a qualified long-term care insurance contract; (3) an annuity contract for an annuity contract or for a qualified long-term care insurance contract; or (4) a qualified long-term care insurance contract for a qualified long-term care insurance contract. **(b) Definitions** For the purpose of this section— (1) **Endowment contract** — A contract of endowment insurance is a contract with an insurance company which depends in part on the life expectancy of the insured, but which may be payable in full in a single payment during his life. (2) **Annuity contract** — An annuity contract is a contract to which paragraph (1) applies but which may be payable during the life of the annuitant only in installments. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a contract shall not fail to be treated as an annuity contract solely because a qualified long-term care insurance contract is a part of or a rider on such contract. (3) **Life insurance contract** — A contract of life insurance is a contract to which paragraph (1) applies but which is not ordinarily payable in full during the life of the insured. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a contract shall not fail to be treated as a life insurance contract solely because a qualified long-term care insurance contract is a part o

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26 U.S.C. § 1351 — Treatment of recoveries of foreign expropriation losses

**(a) Election** (1) **In general** — This section shall apply only to a recovery, by a domestic corporation subject to the tax imposed by section 11 or 801, of a foreign expropriation loss sustained by such corporation and only if such corporation was subject to the tax imposed by section 11 or 801, as the case may be, for the year of the loss and elects to have the provisions of this section apply with respect to such loss. (2) **Time, manner, and scope** — An election under paragraph (1) shall be made at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may prescribe by regulations. An election made with respect to any foreign expropriation loss shall apply to all recoveries in respect of such loss. **(b) Definition of foreign expropriation loss** For purposes of this section, the term “foreign expropriation loss” means any loss sustained by reason of the expropriation, intervention, seizure, or similar taking of property by the government of any foreign country, any political subdivision thereof, or any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing. For purposes of the preceding sentence, a debt which becomes worthless shall, to the extent of any deduction allowed under section 166(a), be treated as a loss. **(c) Amount of recovery** (1) **General rule** — The amount of any recovery of a foreign expropriation loss is the amount of money and the fair market value of other property received in respect of such loss, determined as of the date of receipt. (2) **Special rule for life insurance companies** — The amount of any recovery of a foreign expropriation loss includes, in the case of a life insurance company, the amount of decrease of any item taken into account under section 807(c), to the extent such decrease is attributable to the release, by reason of such loss,

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26 U.S.C. § 1503 — Computation and payment of tax

**(a) [General rule] 11 Subsec. (a) heading editorially supplied.** In any case in which a consolidated return is made or is required to be made, the tax shall be determined, computed, assessed, collected, and adjusted in accordance with the regulations under section 1502 prescribed before the last day prescribed by law for the filing of such return. **(b) Repealed. Pub. L. 94–455, title X, § 1052(c)(5), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1648]** **(c) Special rule for application of certain losses against income of insurance companies taxed under section 801** (1) **In general** — If an election under section 1504(c)(2) is in effect for the taxable year and the consolidated taxable income of the members of the group not taxed under section 801 results in a consolidated net operating loss for such taxable year, then under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the amount of such loss which cannot be absorbed in the applicable carry-back periods against the taxable income of such members not taxed under section 801 shall be taken into account in determining the consolidated taxable income of the affiliated group for such taxable year to the extent of 35 percent of such loss or 35 percent of the taxable income of the members taxed under section 801, whichever is less. The unused portion of such loss shall be available as a carryover, subject to the same limitations (applicable to the sum of the loss for the carryover year and the loss (or losses) carried over to such year), in applicable carryover years. (2) **Losses of recent nonlife affiliates** — Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), a net operating loss for a taxable year of a member of the group not taxed under section 801 shall not be taken into account in determining the taxable income of a member taxed under

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26 U.S.C. § 1504 — Definitions

**(a) Affiliated group defined** For purposes of this subtitle— (1) **In general** — The term “affiliated group” means— (A) 1 or more chains of includible corporations connected through stock ownership with a common parent corporation which is an includible corporation, but only if— (B) (i) the common parent owns directly stock meeting the requirements of paragraph (2) in at least 1 of the other includible corporations, and (ii) stock meeting the requirements of paragraph (2) in each of the includible corporations (except the common parent) is owned directly by 1 or more of the other includible corporations. (2) **80-percent voting and value test** — The ownership of stock of any corporation meets the requirements of this paragraph if it— (A) possesses at least 80 percent of the total voting power of the stock of such corporation, and (B) has a value equal to at least 80 percent of the total value of the stock of such corporation. (3) **5 years must elapse before reconsolidation** (A) *In general* — If— (i) a corporation is included (or required to be included) in a consolidated return filed by an affiliated group, and (ii) such corporation ceases to be a member of such group, with respect to periods after such cessation, such corporation (and any successor of such corporation) may not be included in any consolidated return filed by the affiliated group (or by another affiliated group with the same common parent or a successor of such common parent) before the 61st month beginning after its first taxable year in which it ceased to be a member of such affiliated group. (B) *Secretary may waive application of subparagraph (A)* — The Secretary may waive the application of subparagraph (A) to any corporation for any period subjec

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