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90_HB3229ham001

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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3229
 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 3229  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT to amend the Illinois Insurance Code by amending
 5    Section 409."; and
 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:
 8        "Section  5.  The  Illinois  Insurance Code is amended by
 9    changing Section 409 as follows:
10        (215 ILCS 5/409) (from Ch. 73, par. 1021)
11        Sec. 409.  Annual privilege tax  payable  by  foreign  or
12    alien companies.
13        (1)  Every  foreign  or  alien company doing an insurance
14    business in this State, except fraternal  benefit  societies,
15    shall,  for  the privilege of doing business in this State by
16    renewal of certificate of authority as  provided  in  Section
17    114,  pay  to the Director for the State treasury a State tax
18    equal to 2% 2 per cent of the  net  taxable  premium  income,
19    together  with  any  amounts  due  under  Section 444.  Every
20    domestic  insurance  company,  except  a  fraternal   benefit
21    society,  which  fails to comply with all the requirements of
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 1    subsection (4) of this Section must pay to the  Director  for
 2    payment into the State Treasury a State tax equal to 2% 2 per
 3    cent  of  the net taxable premium income and upon the failure
 4    of any company to pay any such tax due, the Director may,  by
 5    order,  revoke  the  company's certificate of authority after
 6    giving 20 days written notice  to  the  company.   The  gross
 7    taxable  premium income shall be the gross amount of premiums
 8    received on direct business  during  the  preceding  calendar
 9    year  on  contracts  covering  risks  in  this  State, except
10    premiums on annuities  and except premiums on group insurance
11    contracts awarded after the effective date of this amendatory
12    Act of 1976 under the State Employees Group Insurance Act  of
13    1971, and except premiums for deferred compensation plans for
14    employees  of  the State, units of local government or school
15    districts.  The net taxable premium income shall be the gross
16    taxable premium income reduced only by the following:
17             (a)  the amount of premiums returned  thereon  which
18        shall   be   limited  to  premiums  returned  during  the
19        preceding calendar year and shall not include the  return
20        of  cash  surrender  values  or  death  benefits  on life
21        policies;
22             (b)  dividends on such  direct  business  that  have
23        been  paid  in  cash, applied in reduction of premiums or
24        left to accumulate to  the  credit  of  policyholders  or
25        annuitants.   In the case of life insurance, no deduction
26        shall be made for the payment of deferred dividends  paid
27        in  cash to policyholders on maturing policies; dividends
28        left to accumulate to  the  credit  of  policyholders  or
29        annuitants  shall  be  included  as gross taxable premium
30        income when such dividend accumulations  are  applied  to
31        purchase paid-up insurance or to shorten the endowment or
32        premium paying period.
33        (2)  There  shall be deducted from the tax thus computed,
34    but only to the extent thereof,  the  amount,  if  any,  paid
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 1    during  the  preceding  calendar year: (a) for the benefit of
 2    organized fire departments, to cities, villages, incorporated
 3    towns and fire protection districts of this State as a tax on
 4    premiums received by such company in such  cities,  villages,
 5    incorporated  towns and fire protection districts, and (b) as
 6    a tax to this State or any subdivision thereof on or measured
 7    by net income, and  (c)  as  a  tax  to  this  State  or  any
 8    subdivision  thereof  on  or  measured  by  the  value of the
 9    company in excess of the value of its tangible property,  and
10    (d)  as  a  fee or charge for the valuation of life insurance
11    policies, and (e) if the company is not an Illinois  domestic
12    company,  as  a financial regulation fee under subsection (7)
13    of Section 408 of this Code for the examination and  analysis
14    of  financial  condition,  and the remainder shall be paid by
15    such company as its annual privilege tax, and  (f)  for  fees
16    paid pursuant to Section 408 (1) (jj).
17        (3)  If  a  company  survives  or was formed by a merger,
18    consolidation,   reorganization   or   reincorporation,   the
19    premiums received, and  amounts  returned  or  paid,  by  all
20    foreign   or   alien   companies   parties  to  such  merger,
21    consolidation, reorganization or reincorporation, shall,  for
22    the  purposes of determining the amount of the tax imposed by
23    this Section, be regarded as received, returned  or  paid  by
24    such surviving or new company.
25        (4)  A  domestic  company  must  pay  the  State  tax  in
26    subsection (1) of this Section unless:
27             (a)  it maintains its principal place of business in
28        this State; and
29             (b)  it   maintains   in  this  State  officers  and
30        personnel  knowledgeable  of  and  responsible  for   the
31        company's  operation, books, records, administration, and
32        annual statement; and
33             (c)  it conducts in this State substantially all  of
34        its  underwriting, policy issuing, and serving operations
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 1        relating  to  Illinois  policyholders   and   certificate
 2        holders; and
 3             (d)  it  complies with the provisions of Section 133
 4        (2) of this Code.
 5        Payments shall be due on an estimated basis  for  all  of
 6    calendar year 1969 on or before September 1, 1969.  Effective
 7    January  1,  1970,  a company shall make an annual return for
 8    the preceding calendar year on or before  March  1st  setting
 9    forth  such  information  on  such  forms as the Director may
10    reasonably require.  Payments of  quarterly  installments  of
11    the  taxpayer's  total estimated tax for the current calendar
12    year shall be  due  on  or  before  April  15th,  June  15th,
13    September  15th  and  December  15th, unless for the calendar
14    year  1971,  and  each  calendar  year  thereafter,  insurers
15    transacting insurance in this State whose annual tax for  the
16    preceding calendar year was less than $5,000, shall then make
17    only  an  annual  return.   Failure  of  a  company  to  make
18    quarterly  payments,  if  required, of at least one-fourth of
19    either (a) the total tax paid during  the  previous  calendar
20    year  or  (b)  80% of the actual tax for the current calendar
21    year shall subject it to the penalty provisions set forth  in
22    Section 412 of this Act.
23    (Source: P.A. 86-753; 87-108.)".

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