PUBLIC LAW 94-455—OCT. 4, 1976
90 STAT. 1781
" (4) purchased to provide retirement annuities for its employees by an organization which (as of the time the contracts were purchased) was an organization described in section 501(c)(3) which was exempt from tax under section 501(a) or was an organization exempt from tax under section 101(6) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 or the corresponding provisions of prior revenue laws, or purchased to provide retirement annuities for employees described in section 403(b)(1)(A) (ii) by an employer which is a State, a political subdivision of a State, or an agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing; or "(5) purchased under contracts entered into with trusts which (at the time the contracts were entered into) were individual retirement accounts described in section 408(a) or under contracts entered into with individual retirement annuities described in section 408(b)." (98) AMENDMEN'ra OF SECTION 809.
(A) Section 809(b) (relating to definition of gain and loss 26 USC 809. from operations) is amended by striking out paragraph (4). (B)(i) Section 809(d) (relating to life insurance company deductions) is amended by striking out paragraph (11) relating to mutualization distributions before 1963), and by redesignating paragraph (12) as paragraph (11). (ii) Section 809(e) is amended by striking out "subsection (d) (12)" and inserting in lieu thereof "subsection (d) (11)". j.? y (C) Section 809 (relating to computation of gain and loss from operations) is amended by striking out subsection (g) (relating to deduction for certain mutualization distributions before 1963). (99) AMENDMENT or SECTION 812.—Section 812(b)(1) (relat- 26 USC 812. ing to years to which operating losses of an insurance company may be carried), other than the last sentence thereof, as added by section 806(d)(1)(A) of this Act, is amended to read as follows: "(1) YEARS TO WHICH LOSS MAY BE CARRIED.—The loss from operations for any taxable year (hereinafter in this section referred to as the'loss year') shall be— "(A) an operations loss carryback to each of the 3 taxable years preceding the loss year, "(B) an operations loss carryover to each of the 5 taxable years following the loss year, and "(C) subject to subsection (e), if the life insurance company is a new company for the loss year, an operations loss carryover to each of the 3 taxable years following the 5 taxable years described in subparagraph (B)." (100) AMENDMENTS OF SECTION 8IT.—Section 817 (relating to
26 USC 817.
rules applicable to certain gains and losses) is amended by striking out subsection (c) (relating to treatment of pre-1959 capital losses) and subsection (e) (relating to certain 1958 reinsurance transactions). (101) AMENDMENT OF SECTION sis.—Section 818 (relating to 26 USC 818. life insurance accounting provisions) is amended by striking out subsection (e) (relating to certain rules applicable to taxable years 1957, 1958, and 1959), and by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as subsections (e) and (f), respectively. (102) AMENDMENTS o r SECTION 8 i 9. —
(A) The first sentence of section 819(a)(2)(A) (relating 26 USC 819. to definition of minimum figure for foreign life insurance companies) is amended to read as follows: "The minimum figure is the amount determined by multiplying the tax-
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