Increased revenue from premium taxes paid by insurance companies helped boost overall state government tax collections in fiscal 2011.

A Mansfield, Ohio, insurance agent pleaded guilty to willfully failing to file an income tax return with the IRS for 10 years, the agency and the U.S. Justice Department reported.

A federal judge ruled Congress’ Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional in a case over whether a government workers should be permitted to enroll her same-sex spouse in federal health insurance coverage.

A group of insurance associations is concerned about the implications that new taxes included in President Obama‘s 2013 budget proposal, introduced Feb. 13, will have on the life insurance industry.

Former New York Sen. Nicholas A. Spano (35th District) pleaded guilty Feb. 11 in federal court in White Plains, N.Y., to filing fraudulent tax returns involving payment from an insurance company.

WASHINGTON – In Maryland, a state with the nation’s second-highest concentration of millionaires, there are a lot of eyes on President Obama‘s push for a “Buffet Rule” tax on the wealthiest Americans.

Two former owners of a Stoughton, Mass.-based temporary employment agency were convicted of paying their employees under the table to avoid paying more than $7 million in taxes and workers’ compensation insurance premiums.

One-third of participants in the latest IFAwebnews.com poll say that Ohio’s plan to review all insurance agents for tax and workers’ compensation law compliance prior to renewing their licenses is unfair.

Two senators from Pennsylvania are raising concerns about the federal tax treatment for life insurance policy sales and purchases.

Congress definitely should not tax the $57.5 trillion in death benefits paid out from life insurance each year, according to the latest IFAwebnews.com poll.