/ Category: Recently C.D. Ulrich CPA won a hard fought battle with the IRS. For years Ulrich really believed that the IRS was unfair to taxpayers (I really want to laugh right now but I am trying to be professional as I think the IRS has never been fair) when it came to the taxation of the stock they received from the demutualization of the insurance companies.
In the 90s many mutual insurance companies decided that they would go public and they went through the effort to sell their stock to the public. When they demutualized ( a mutual company is a company that is mutually owned by their policy holders) they not only sold stock to the public but the policy owners all got stock for owning policies.
You may have been one of the lucky (or so you thought) few that received notice that you were going to get a stock distribution from owning that policy until you also received a bill for taxes on the entire amount of stock distributed. As an example if you owned a policy with John Hancock and you received $100,000 in stock you would have been taxed on the entire $100,000.
Mr. Ulrich thought this was a rip off (like all the other financial planners out there) but he had the guts and staying power to fight the mighty IRS and he won. His opinion was that if you are a mutual owner of a company you have paid for your policy which would constitute a cost basis for the stock. You are only getting an exchange for the premiums you paid. This means that if you take the first example of getting the $100,000 you would only pay tax if the $100,000 increased to $105,000. Then you would only pay tax on the increase of the $5,000.
Currently if you have ever received a distribution check from a company that has demutualized then you might be entitled to a refund. We are reviewing this for clients and people that contact us. The best way you can find out if you might be eligible for a refund is to send us an email to taxrefund@kenhimmler.com Please let us know the company you received stock from, when and the amount. If we feel you might be eligible then we will contact you for more information. Please include your name and your mailing address and phone number in the email you send us.
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