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Financial protection

5. The taxation of life assurance and pension-based protection policies

Learning outcome 5 Understand the taxation treatment of life assurance and pension based protection policies

The main tax of relevance to life assurance policies is income tax. The factor that has the most significant influence on the tax treatment of a life assurance policy is whether the way that the policy is structured renders it as qualifying or non-qualifying. Generally, qualifying plans are n...

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...00 and most providers withdrew from the market for life assurance based regular savings.

Different qualifying rules apply to different types of policy:

Term assurance - The rules relating to term assurance are outside the scope of R05

Whole of life

Endowments

Exempt policies

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