Practical Perspectives on Insurance Business Taxation in India : SCHEDULE-XIV of Income Tax Bill, 2025 Vs. SCHEDULE 01 of Income-tax Act, 1961

Insurance business taxation: updated rules tie taxable profits to actuarial surplus and reorganized disallowance cross-references.

Schedule-XIV requires separate computation of life insurance profits by annual averaging of actuarial surplus/deficit from the last inter-valuation period, with add-backs of inadmissible expenditures under the reorganized disallowance provisions; it updates crediting rules for tax paid during multi-year valuation periods, prescribes profit computation and specified add-backs and deductions for other insurance business (including treatment of investment gains/losses and reserves for unexpired risks), and provides a proportional premium-based deeming rule for non-resident insurers, while streamlining interpretative definitions.