518.18 Premium tax.

After January 1, 1966, every association doing business under this chapter shall be required to pay to the director of the department of revenue, or a depository designated by the director, as taxes an amount equal to the following:

1. The applicable percent of the gross amount of premiums received during the preceding calendar year, after deducting the amount returned upon the canceled policies, certificates, and rejected applications; and after deducting premiums paid for windstorm or hail reinsurance on properties specifically reinsured. However, the reinsurer of such windstorm or hail risks shall pay the applicable percent of the gross amount of reinsurance premiums received upon such risks after deducting the amounts returned upon canceled policies, certificates, and rejected applications. For purposes of this section, “applicable percent” means the same as specified in section 432.1, subsection 4.

2. Except as provided in subsection 3, the premium tax shall be paid on or before March 1 of the year following the calendar year for which the tax is due. The commissioner of insurance may suspend the certificate of authority of a county mutual insurance association that fails to pay its premium tax on or before the due date.

3. a. Each county mutual insurance association transacting business in this state whose Iowa premium tax liability for the preceding calendar year was one thousand dollars or more shall remit on or before June 1, on a prepayment basis, an amount equal to one-half of the premium tax liability for the preceding calendar year.

b. In addition to the prepayment amount in paragraph “a”, each association shall remit on or before August 15, on a prepayment basis, an additional amount equal to the following percent of the premium tax liability for the preceding calendar year as follows:

(1) For prepayment in the 2003 and 2004 calendar years, eleven percent.

(2) For prepayment in the 2005 calendar year, twenty-six percent.

(3) For prepayment in the 2006 and subsequent calendar years, fifty percent.

c. The sums prepaid by a county mutual insurance association under this subsection shall be allowed as credits against its premium tax liability for the calendar year during which the payments are made. If a prepayment made under this subsection exceeds the annual premium tax liability, the excess shall be allowed as a credit against subsequent prepayment or tax liabilities. The commissioner of insurance may suspend the certificate of authority of an association that fails to make a prepayment on or before the due date.

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §518.18]

2003 Acts, ch 145, §286; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §136, 159; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §339, 348

Referred to in §432.1