Budget 2012 and insurance sector

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Contents Impact of Increased Service Tax

Tax exemption under section 80C and 10D of Income tax act

Modification in section 80D of Income tax act

Extension in Rashtriya Shashthya Bima Yojona (RSBY)

The role of value added IT service provider

Impact of Increased Service Tax

Revised Service tax – Increased to 12% from 10% previous financial year.

Policy holders to bear the additional service tax load

New service tax effective from 1st April,2012

What does it mean for Policyholders:

Impact on premium on different types of insurance plans.

Is owning an insurance policy costlier?

What does it mean for Insurance companies: Any Operational challenges ?

Proposal with less money collected before 31st of March,2012

Backdated polices issued after 31st of March,2012

ST Cess Total ST

Current 10% 0.30% 10.30%

Revised 12% 0.36% 12.36%

Increased Service Tax

Service Tax loading for different Insurance Plans: For Endowment and Whole life plans

Composite rate of service tax applied is increased from 1.545% to 3.09% (including cess). Applicable only in the first year –

Policy owner will pay 50% extra service tax for the same sum assured in the first year.

Subsequent years (Premium Paying term), the rate of service tax is 1.5%.

For Term plans Service tax of 12.36% will be applicable on the entire premium.

For Unit Linked Plans ( below example on Premium amount allocation) Application of Service tax on the front end load component of a premium

installment


Premium FEL Rate FEL ST Amount allocated

Current 1000 15% 150 15.45( i.e. 150*0.1030)

834.55( i.e.1000 - (150+15.45)

After Budget 1000 15% 150 18.54 ( i.e. 150*0.1236)

831.46( i.e. 1000 - (150+18.54)

For Unit Linked Plans

Service tax is applicable on following other cost heads

Mortality charge

Fund management charge

Policy Admin charge.

Lesser amounts available for allocation.

Overall increase in cost of ULIPs policyholders.

For Non-life plans Service tax of 12.36% will be applicable on entire premium. Overall increase in cost for policyholders.


Proposal with less money is collected before 31st March 2012 and issued in April:

• As per the IRDA guide lines, Service tax rate on premium amount should be applied as on the due

date .

• In this scenario the new rate will be applied and amount that has collected is not sufficient to issue

the policy (assumption diff. in amount is greater than the tolerance limit provided by the Insurer)

• Insurer has to communicate with the policy holder to get that extra amount due to the increase in

service tax amount.

• If policy data is already entered in the system ( having old rate set up) then need to perform data

fixation on the data related to financial transaction in future, for these policies.

IRDA :Insurance Regulatory Development Authority

Operation challenges: What if

Backdated policy issued after 31st March :

• Old service tax will be applied as per IRDA guide rule, because policy issue date is before 31st of

March,2012 .

• Policy will be issued and

• Data fixation is not required on these policies.

Operation challenges: What if

Tax exemption under section 80C and 10D of Income tax act


Tax exemption under section 80C and 10D of Income tax

Modification in section 80D of Income tax act


1. Deduction of amount spent for Preventive medical test from taxable income:

Only Health insurance premium amount is deducted from taxable income.

As per the budget 2012, amount spends up to Rs. 5,000/- for preventive medical checkup will

also be tax exempted under section 80D.

2. Lowered the age above which to be considered as a senior citizen:

One can avail additional tax exemption up to Rs. 15,000/- under section 80D on premium

payments made towards parents health insurance premium.

Senior citizen – Age revised to 60 years from 65years.

Senior Citizen health insurance premium of Rs. 20,000/- remains unchanged.

Modification in section 80D of Income tax Act

RSBY Coverage extended to non-BPL(below poverty line) workers from the un-organised sector. Exclusions - workers and their families, if covered under the Employees’ State Insurance Scheme,

Central Government Health Scheme etc., are not covered under the expanded RSBY.


Role of Value added IT service provider

Value added IT service provider can help insurers implement

Change in the service tax rate, Set the new rate

Build new functionality

Migration where needed.

Change in the minimum Sum assured limit Insurer to develop new insurance products.

implement necessary changes the same in Policy administration systems.

The role of Value added IT service provider

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