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Alimony Deduction -- Does It Include Court-ordered Life Insurance? |
If there is a court straighten out that a person pay for a life insurance policy with the ex-spouse as beneficiary, do the payments for the life insurance count as alimony for deduction purposes?
Yep, patently this judge did order it, no clue why. May have to do with college-age kids to help with education expenses or possibly the judge just didn't like him.
| Answer: Yes it is alimony and you can subtract this. "Life insurance premiums. Alimony includes premiums you must pay under your divorce or separation prime mover for insurance on your life to the extent your spouse owns the policy." Source: IRS publication 17: Your Unique Income Tax. |
In a announcement, the industry said that the proposed budget for 2013 “reasserts two provisions—one on corporate-owned life insurance (COLI) and one on life insurers' dividends-received deduction (DRD)—that were initially proposed in the 2010 budget