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Chapter IEIM401640

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Vincent
Published date25 April 2016
Record NumberIEIM401640
CourtHM Revenue & Customs
IssuerHM Revenue & Customs
Financial Accounts: Cash Value Insurance Contract

A Cash Value Insurance Contract is an investment product that has an element of life insurance attached to it. The life insurance element is often small compared to the investment element of the contract. General insurance products such as property or motor insurance, and term life insurance that do not carry any investment element are not financial accounts.

A Cash Value Insurance Contract is an insurance contract where the policyholder is entitled to receive payment on surrender or termination of the contract. An insurance contract will also be a Cash Value Insurance Contract where the policyholder can borrow against the contract, for example by using the contract as collateral for borrowing, the contract being acceptable as collateral because of the associated cash value. Examples of the type of insurance product that will be cash value insurance products and those that will not can be found at [see IEIM401660].

Other types of general insurance may be used as collateral, for example key man insurance, but these are not cash value insurance contracts because the collateral is not reliant on any payment on surrender or termination of the contract. Rather the collateral is based on the assignment of the benefits of the contract to the lender in the event that the contingency insured against comes about.

The cash value of such a contract is the greater of:

  1. The amount that the policyholder is entitled to receive on the surrender or termination of the contract without reduction for any surrender charge or loans outstanding against the policy, for example, where the policyholder receives an annual statement of the value of the policy that will be the cash value in that year, and
  2. The amount the...

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