Finance, Investments, and Accounting

For the fifth consecutive year, abusive micro-captive insurance companies found their way to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) annual "Dirty Dozen" listing. Where last year's listing told taxpayers to be wary, the IRS uses a more aggressive tone in the 2019 listing. Read More

Bruce Wright, partner at Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP discusses direct procurement taxes in terms of captive insurer compliance. Read More

State and local income taxes are an evolving issue that concerns captive insurers and that some states are challenging as they look for revenue. Read More

Alan Fine of Brown Smith Wallace contemplates the conclusions reached and supporting rationale used by the US Tax Court in the second small captive case, "Reserve Mechanical Corp. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue," and believes there are a few areas that continue to warrant discussion. Read More

Beware of what you wish for-captive insurers are impacted by inflation in a number of ways, and the results are typically not good. The benign inflation of the past 5 years may have led captive insurers to become complacent. Here is why you need to reexamine your inflation risk mitigation strategy. Read More