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Currently Ulips come under the EEE (exempt exempt exempt) regime when it comes to taxation. What this means is that the money invested in an Ulip is tax exempt, the returns earned during the tenure of the Ulip are tax exempt and the amount received at maturity is also tax exempt.
After winning the turf war with market watchdog SEBI on ULIPs, insurance regulator IRDA on Monday said it would frame new guidelines for these products to make them more attractive for policy holders. “Certainly, yes,” Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA ) chairman J Hari Narayan said when asked whether the insurance regulator would unveil new guidelines for ULIPs to make them attractive for investors.
The President of India has promulgated an Ordinance late last evening amending the RBI Act 1934, Insurance Act 1938, SEBI Act 1992 and Securities Contract Regulations Act 1956, thereby clarifying by way of an explanation that Life Insurance business shall include any Unit Linked Insurance Policy or scripts or any such instruments. This would set at rest all the issues regarding ULIPs between two financial regulators i.e. Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Insurance Regulatory Development Authority (IRDA).
The Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee has asked insurance industry to give more focus to generate the required level of awareness about the benefits of insurance to rural people particularly those living in semi-urban and rural areas. They should make all efforts to take the necessary steps to ensure the reach of insurance to general masses.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) need further reforms on the back of the changes already announced by the insurance regulator. The finance minister also hinted at a resolution to the dispute between Sebi and Irda over Ulip regulation.
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) has not cleared any unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) for nearly two months, following the recent changes to the norms and the regulatory tussle over the investment-cum-insurance products.
Life Insurance Corporation of India is likely to submit new unit-linked insurance plans Ulips with the regulator in light of its two plans coming to a close. The corporation’s endowment plan Wealth Plus closed on May 8 while another pension plan Market Plus will close at the end of next month. It is likely to float new schemes to ensure that there are enough products in its stable.
While people tend to invest a lot of time and effort in evaluating investment avenues, the same cannot be said about the caution exercised during execution of the transaction. Even minor errors, many of them merely clerical in nature, could result in needless hassles or delays.
To make unit-linked insurance plans (Ulips) more transparent, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (Irda) on Tuesday proposed to standardize definitions of lapsing, reviving and surrendering of these policies.
The feud between the two regulatory authorities, in the aftermath of sebi’s ban on ulips, has turned out to be quite a sensitive topic. In the recent days, that has, as ever so, come to be ballooned by the media into a sensational one. In that, the media has dutifully arisen to the occasion, and in its own inimitable style, spared no pains but given the widest possible publicity to the newfound hot topic with zeal and in a feverish pitch.
