§ 27-43-9. Tax on premiums collected. (a) Each captive insurance company shall pay to the division of taxation, on or before the first day of March of each year, a tax at the rate of two tenths of one percent (0.2%) on the first twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), and fifteen one hundredths of one percent (0.15%) on the next twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), and one tenth of one percent (0.1%) on the next twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), and thirty-seven and one-half thousandths of one percent (0.0375%) on each dollar thereafter on the direct premiums collected or contracted for on policies or contracts of insurance written by the captive insurance company during the year ending December 31 next preceding, after deducting from the direct premiums subject to the tax the amounts paid to policyholders as return premiums which shall include dividends on unabsorbed premiums or premium deposits returned or credited to policyholders.

(b) Each captive insurance company shall pay to the division of taxation on or before the first day of March of each year a tax at the rate of one hundred and twelve and one-half thousandths of one percent (0.1125%) on the first twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) of assumed reinsurance premium, and seventy-five thousandths of one percent (0.075%) on the next twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), and twenty-five thousandths of one percent (0.025%) on the next twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), and twelve and one-half thousandths of one percent (0.0125%) of each dollar thereafter. No reinsurance tax applies to premiums for risks or portions of risks which are subject to taxation on a direct basis pursuant to subsection (a) of this section. No reinsurance premium tax is payable in connection with the receipt of assets in exchange for the assumption of loss reserves and other liabilities of another insurer under common ownership and control if this transaction is part of a plan to discontinue the operations of the other insurer, and if the intent of the parties to this transaction is to renew or maintain this business with the captive insurance company.

(c) If the aggregate taxes to be paid by a captive insurance company calculated under subsections (a) and (b) of this section amount to less than twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) in any year, this captive insurance company pays a tax of twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) for this year.

(d) Two (2) or more captive insurance companies under common ownership and control are taxed as though they were a single captive insurance company.

(e) For the purposes of this section, common ownership and control means:

(1) In the case of stock corporations, the direct or indirect ownership of eighty percent (80%) or more of the outstanding voting stock of two (2) or more corporations by the same shareholder or shareholders; and

(2) In the case of mutual corporations, the direct or indirect ownership of eighty percent (80%) or more of the surplus and the voting power of two (2) or more corporations by the same member or members.

(f) A captive insurance company is not subject to the gross premium tax imposed under chapter 17 of title 44.

History of Section. (P.L. 1988, ch. 76, § 1; P.L. 1999, ch. 4, § 1.)