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The company said it has not received any official communication from any government authority or department regarding the change of GST rates on life and health insurance premiums

The GST Council is scheduled to meet in Rajasthan on December 21 and 22 to discuss potential tax relief on select insurance plans

According to a Nuvama report, growth dipped in October 2024 due to the 'increased surrender value' regulation kicking in, but still held steady

The two ministerial panels set up by the GST Council are slated to meet on October 19 to discuss GST rate rationalisation and lowering 18 per cent tax rate on health and life insurance premiums. This would be the first meeting of the 13-member GoM, under Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary, which was set up to suggest tax on health and life insurance premiums. The panel, which includes ministers from Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Gujarat, Meghalaya, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Telangana, has been mandated to submit its report to the GST Council by October end. Currently an 18 per cent GST is levied on health and life insurance premiums and the GoM would be suggesting tax rate of health/medical insurance including individual, group, family floater and other medical insurance for various categories like senior citizens, middle class, and persons with mental illness. It would also suggest tax rates on life insurance, including term

LIC's new business premium grew by 12.4 per cent Y-o-Y to Rs 203,69.26 cr

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In H1, new business premiums of life companies was up 19% YoY

Unlike now, when policyholders lose the entire premium paid if they exit after year one, once the new policy kicks in, they will get a part of their premium back.

Insurance premiums may increase or the commission of agents could see a reduction as the revised surrender value proposed by the sector regulator IRDAI comes into force from Tuesday. Earlier this year, the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) introduced revised surrender value guidelines to offer better returns to policyholders exiting early from their life insurance policies. A surrender value in insurance refers to the amount paid by the insurers to the policyholder upon terminating the policy before its maturity date. If the policyholder surrenders during the policy tenure, the earnings and savings portion will be paid to him or her. The regulator has emphasised the need for insurers to ensure 'reasonableness and value for money' for both exiting and continuing policyholders when determining surrender values. According to a senior official of the private sector insurance company, to meet the revised surrender charges, life insurers would either raise .

Life insurers have recorded a 22 per cent rise in underwriting new business with a premium collection of Rs 32,644 crore in August. The new business premium collection for the first five months of FY25 rose 21 per cent to Rs 1,54,194 crore from Rs 1,27,661 crore in the same period last year, as per the monthly data released by the industry body Life Insurance Council. New business premiums expanded from Rs 26,788.55 crore in August 2023 to Rs 32,644 crore in August 2024, with year-to-date collections growing even more from Rs 1,27,661 crore to Rs 1,54,194 crore this year, according to the council data. Despite the underlying demand for enhanced insurance protection from individual consumers and corporate clients alike, new policy issuances decreased by 1.44 per cent to 23,94,007 in August 2024 compared to 24,28,895 policies sold in the same period last year. Life insurers made net additions of 1,08,147 individual life insurance agents in August 2024 alone, contributing to an overal

The growth in the premium was driven by LIC, while a high base effect impacted the improvement of private life insurers, analysts said

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Opposition members in Lok Sabha on Wednesday slammed the government for not taking up an amendment in the Finance Bill to withdraw the 18 per cent GST levy on medical and life insurance premiums. Opposition MPs staged a walkout from Lok Sabha after an amendment moved by RSP member N K Premchandran seeking removal of 18 per cent GST on medical and life insurance premiums was not taken up by the House during the passage of the Finance Bill. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who piloted the Finance Bill, said any amendment in GST has to be approved by the GST council. "Specific demand of the entire opposition is to withdraw the 18 per cent GST on life and health insurance schemes for which I had given an amendment. Normal procedure of the House is that the amendment is circulated only if it is admitted," Premchandran told reporters outside Parliament after the walked out by the opposition MPs. "This was circulated yesterday itself. This gives a message that it has been accepted, or

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday criticised the opposition parties for their walkout from the Lok Sabha after their amendment to withdraw GST levy on medical and life insurance premiums was not taken up and said they did so as a "face-saver" after she addressed all their issues in her speech. Speaking to reporters in Parliament House Complex, Sitharaman said the GST Council, which is a constitutional body, can take up any matter related to the GST and such an amendment could not be moved in Parliament as demanded by the opposition parties. "They were given appropriate response to all their issues. They were looking for a face-saver and picked on this to stage a walkout. It was an afterthought," she said. RSP member N K Premchandran had moved the amendment during the passage of the Finance Bill, seeking removal of 18 per cent GST on medical and life insurance premiums. Normal procedure of the House is that the amendment is circulated only if it is admitted, he told .

INDIA bloc parties staged a protest in Parliament premises on Tuesday to press for the rollback of 18 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on life and health insurance premiums. MPs from various parties such as TMC, Congress, AAP and NCP (SC), among others, participated in the protest on the steps leading to the Makar Dwar of Parliament. Carrying placards reading "Tax terrorism", the protesting MPs raised slogans demanding that the GST on life and health insurance premiums be rolled back. Trinamool Congress MPs have raised the issue in Parliament and party president and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the matter. Union minister Nitin Gadkari also wrote to Sitharaman and urged her to consider withdrawing the GST which, he said, amounted to taxing uncertainties of life and restricting the industry's growth.

Replying to a Parliament question, Chouhan said that earlier farmers had to wait for their claims unless both the Centre and states released their share of the premium subsidy

The decision to impose an 18% tax on insurance policies and premiums has drawn criticism from several Opposition leaders, including Mamata Banerjee

Gadkari said in his letter that he is writing to the finance minister following a memorandum from the Nagpur Divisional Life Insurance Corporation Employees Union

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