Description: As part of tax reform introduced effective at the beginning of 1988, a major revision of the taxation of life insurance companies operating in Canada occurred. This guide highlights specific legislation, discussion papers, policyholder taxation and history of such legislation.

Description: The Required Minimum Distribution [RMD] working group of the Taxation Section has completed research in determining the actuarial present value of additional benefits for computing RMD under deferred annuity contracts. This is Appendix H spreadsheet for persistency bonus calculations for this research project. Please see teh SOA website research section for the complete report and excel spreadsheets for other appendices.