BSMG Blog: Protecting the Future of Families and Businesses

Often a policy review of your client’s existing life insurance and annuity contracts will conclude that a more cost efficient contract with better guarantees and rates of return makes sense. This will cause a producer to seek a potential transfer of the existing cash values to a new contract via a tax free Section 1035 exchange.

IRC Section 1035 provides that exchanges into life insurance or annuity contracts with Long Term Care (LTC) riders will be income tax free because these riders are treated as  LTC contracts under IRC Section 7702B(e). These Section 1035 tax free exchange provisions positively impact so-called linked benefit life insurance-LTC products and linked benefit annuity-LTC products.