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<text id=92TT2904>
<title>
Dec. 28, 1992: Death and Taxes
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 28, 1992 What Does Science Tell Us About God?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 18
SOCIETY
Death and Taxes
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<p>New IRS proposals help the terminally ill cash in life insurance
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<p> One rarely receives, or expects, compassion from the Internal
Revenue Service. But when it comes to the terminally ill,
especially those suffering from AIDS, the IRS is showing that
it may have a heart after all. The agency has issued proposed
regulations on ways insurance companies can provide accelerated
death benefits to policyholders, tax free. Accelerated death
benefits are in growing demand as AIDS patients seek to cash in
their life-insurance policies, either to pay for treatments or
to fulfill dying wishes. With health costs skyrocketing,
accelerated death benefits are also a desired option for other
terminally ill patients. Insurance companies had been operating
without clear guidance about the tax status of such payments.
Both the insurance industry and AIDS groups are praising the new
proposals as an important step toward clearing up the situation.
The IRS hopes to put the new rules in place by the middle of
next year; hearings on the issue are set for March.
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