Have Some Free Insurance – Not
Eagle Financial Group, Inc, by some sort of wild coincidence a company owned by the agent who sold the policies, issued them a check in the amount of the first year’s premium. They issued a recourse note in the amount of the premium advance to Eagle. There were, however, never any payments made on the note. The policies were canceled in 2003 and Mr. Smith, the agent, was sued by Ohio National Insurance Co for “rebating”.
IRS Declines Rubbing Salt in The Wound
There is really no excuse for people having gotten themselves in this situation. It is true that some facilitators have a sort of black box business model in which the money disappears when you sell the relinquished property. In that model, it’s none of your concern where the money is in the meantime as long as they deliver the target property. That is not the only model though. It is also permissible for the funds to be segregated in separate bank accounts and some facilitators are affiliated with major banks
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.