Tratamiento FiscalPregunta 452 de 716
A life insurance policy becomes a modified endowment contract (MEC) when it:
a.Is issued as term insurance
b.Pays annual dividends to the owner, which is a feature of participating whole life, not a MEC trigger
c.Has a named contingent beneficiary
d.Is funded more quickly than the limits allowed under the seven-pay test
Explicación
A policy is classified as a MEC if the cumulative premiums paid in the early years exceed the limits set by the seven-pay test, meaning it was funded too fast relative to its death benefit. Being term insurance, paying dividends, or naming a contingent beneficiary does not create a MEC. The MEC rules were enacted to stop people from overfunding life insurance purely as a tax shelter, and once a policy is a MEC its living distributions lose favorable tax treatment.
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Revisado por John Zihao Zhang — California-Licensed Life Insurance Agent (CA Dept. of Insurance License #4396095 — verificar)