Reg. § 1.809-6 Modifications.
Under section , the deductions allowed under section and (relating to other deductions) are subject to the following modifications:
(a) Interest No deduction shall be allowed under section for interest in respect of items described in section since such interest is taken into account in the determination of required interest under section .
(b) Bad debts No deduction shall be allowed for an addition to reserves for bad debts under section . However, a deduction for specific bad debts shall be allowed to the extent that such deduction is allowed under section and the regulations thereunder. In the case of a loss incurred on the sale of mortgaged or pledged property, see .
(c) Charitable, etc., contributions and gifts
(1) The deduction by a life insurance company in any taxable year for a charitable contribution (as defined in section ) shall be limited to 5 percent of the gain from operations (as determined under section ), computed without regard to any deductions for:
(i) Charitable contributions under section ;
(ii) Dividends to policyholders under section ;
(iii) Certain nonparticipating contracts under section ;
(iv) Group life insurance contracts and group accident and health insurance contracts under section ;
(v) Tax-exempt interest, dividends, etc., under section ; and
(vi) Any operations loss carryback to the taxable year under section .
(2) In applying the first sentence of section as contained in section or, in the case of taxable years beginning after December 31, 1969, section as contained in section 170A, any excess of the charitable contributions made by a life insurance company in a taxable year over the amount deductible in such year under the limitation contained in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph, shall be reduced to the extent that such excess:
(i) Reduces life insurance company taxable income (computed without regard to section 802(b)(3)) for the purpose of determining the offsets referred to in section ; and
(ii) Increases an operations loss carryover under section for a succeeding taxable year.
(3) The application of the rules provided in section and this paragraph may be illustrated by the following example:
Example. Assume that life insurance company P is organized on January 1, 1958, and has a loss from operations for that year in the amount of $100,000 which is an operations loss carryover to 1959. In 1959, company P has a gain from operations and tax base (computed without regard to section 802(b)(3)) of $100,000 before the allowance of a deduction for a $5,000 charitable contribution made in 1959 and before the application of the operations loss carryover from 1958. Under section , the operations loss carryover from 1958 is first applied to eliminate the $100,000 gain from operations and tax base in 1959 and the $5,000 charitable contribution carryover would (except for the limitation contained in this paragraph) become a charitable contribution carryover to 1960. However, for the purpose of computing the offsets referred to in section , the $5,000 charitable contribution is applied to reduce the gain from operations and tax base for 1959 to $95,000 before the application of the operations carryover from 1958. Since only $95,000 of the $100,000 loss from operations in 1958 is an offset for 1959, the remaining $5,000 becomes an operations loss carryover to 1960. Accordingly, under the limitation contained in this paragraph, the charitable contributions carryover provided under the second sentence of section is eliminated.
(d) Amortizable bond premium No deduction shall be allowed under section for the amortization of bond premiums since a special deduction for such premiums is specifically taken into account under section .
(e) Net operating loss deduction No deduction shall be allowed under section since section allows an “operations loss deduction”.
(f) Partially tax-exempt interest No deduction shall be allowed under section for partially tax-exempt interest since section allows a deduction for such interest.
(g) Dividends received No deduction shall be allowed under sections , , and for dividends received since section allows a deduction for such dividends.
[T.D. 6535, 26 FR 529, Jan. 20, 1961, as amended by T.D. 7207, 37 FR 20797, Oct. 5, 1972; 85 FR 64393, Oct. 13, 2020]