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On March 27, 2024 the Vermont Captive Insurance Association (VCIA) held its biannual “Roadshow” educational event designed for prospective captive insurance companies. The Roadshow, which has been hosted in over 20 cities,...more
Developments in Vermont 2023 - Captive Legislation - On May 8, 2023, Governor Phil Scott signed Vermont’s annual captive “housekeeping” bill into law. The 2023 legislation includes the following notable provisions...more
Developments In Vermont - Changes at the Top After more than five years of continuity, Vermont’s leadership team has seen significant turnover during 2022. In April, Michael Pieciak, the Commissioner of the Department...more
Developments in Vermont Federal Issues State Issues Continued Impact of COVID-19 - The measures taken by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (the “DFR”) in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been...more
The measures taken by the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (the “DFR”) in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been extended through 2021. These include a recognition that in-person board meetings in...more
On December 1, 2020, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in CIC Servs. LLC v. Internal Revenue Service, a case challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) reporting requirements around certain...more
Captive insurance companies are an elusive risk management strategy that, for many, is so poorly understood it is difficult to even begin consideration. Those who happen to fall into discussions of captives often bounce...more
Vermont's Leadership Team - Vermont’s leadership team largely stayed the course in 2017. Governor Phil Scott and Michael Pieciak, the Commissioner of the Department of Financial Regulation (the “DFR”), each completed a...more
In this case, Reserve Mechanical Corp. (“Reserve”), a captive insurer incorporated under the laws of Anguilla, sued the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in the U.S. Tax Court regarding the Commissioner’s findings of $477,261...more
The terms "captive insurance" and "federal income tax code" are anything but captivating. Yet, captive insurance has captivated the attention of the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"), which has placed captive insurance on its...more
A husband and wife who paid $1.54 million in premiums to their captive insurance company and $720,000 in premiums to another insurer over two years, almost all of which ended up back in their bank accounts, have had their tax...more
• The U.S. Tax Court recently ruled in Avrahami v. Commissioner, the first litigated Tax Court case involving an 831(b) captive insurance company. • The Tax Court held that two of the key factors that define "insurance"...more
While many were captivated by the solar eclipse on August 21st, the US Tax Court, in Avrahami v. Commissioner, shed judicial light on the tax treatment of what is known as a “microcaptive” insurance company. More...more
The Tax Court has issued its long-awaited decision addressing captive insurance arrangements. In Avrahami v. Commissioner, 149 T.C. No. 7 (2017), the Tax Court held that payments made from a number of businesses owned by the...more
Changes at the Top - Republican Phil Scott was elected Governor of Vermont in November 2016, having previously served as Lieutenant Governor for six years. Governor Scott has re-appointed Michael Pieciak to serve as the...more
On the heels of Congress’ amendments last year to Section 831(b) of the Internal Revenue Code to curb perceived abusive use of so-called “micro” captive insurance companies, the IRS recently issued Notice 2016-66 officially...more
The Internal Revenue Service on November 1, 2016 issued Notice 2016-66 (the Notice) requiring information reporting with respect to certain insurance or reinsurance transactions (often referred to as micro-captive...more
Governor Peter Shumlin (D-Vt.) is not running for re-election this fall, so Vermont will have a new governor in January 2017. In addition, the Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Financial Regulation (DFR), Susan...more
Captive insurance arrangements, in New York and in certain other states, are often dependent on the federal treatment of the relationship as insurance for federal income tax purposes. A recent New York state...more
Despite a considerable reduction in budget and personnel, the Internal Revenue Service announced earlier this year that it would devote considerable time and effort to crack down on what it views as widespread abusive...more
Every tax season, the Internal Revenue Service releases a “Dirty Dozen” list of schemes that it considers abusive and widespread enough to present a systemic threat to its enforcement of the tax laws. This year’s list...more
In February 2015, the IRS added certain small or “micro” captive insurance companies to its “Dirty Dozen” list of abusive tax scams for the 2015 filing season. In response to what it sees as an abuse involving a...more
A "captive" insurance company is an insurer formed for the limited purpose of insuring the risks of its non-insurer owner or owners. A captive can be an effective risk-management tool, especially for costly or unconventional...more