Cash value is a savings component of your permanent life insurance policy. You can take loans or withdrawals from the cash ...

Life insurance is one of the first investments that many people make when solidifying their financial future. There are a lot of terms that are unique to life insurance, and some can be confusing. If ...

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During the recently concluded 2022 National Council of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL) Summer National Meeting in Jersey City, NJ, the organization unanimously adopted a Resolution Identifying Certain ...

The Internal Revenue Code does not explicitly provide for the tax treatment of increases in the cash surrender value of a life insurance policy unless those values are accessed, directly or indirectly ...

Editor’s Note: The 2017 tax reform legislation reversed the IRS position in Revenue Ruling 2009-13, and instead now provides that in determining basis, no adjustment is made for mortality, expense or ...

Cash value life insurance is a type of permanent life insurance that uses your monthly premiums to build value within the policy. Cash value life insurance combines the benefits of life insurance with ...