Officer life insurance premiums and cash surrender value and the OAA

Per Rev. Rul. 2008-42, premiums paid by the S Corporation on an employer-owned life insurance contract which the corporation owns and is a beneficiary of, don't reduce the S Corporation's Accumulated Adjustment Account.
Although the Revenue Ruling doesn't explain this reasoning, it would seem that even though no deduction is allowed for premiums paid on any life insurance policy where the taxpayer is directly or indirectly the beneficiary, the nondeductible expense doesn't reduce the S Corporation's Accumulated Adjustment Account because the expense is related to tax-exempt income.
Therefore, UltraTax CS assumes amounts entered in the
Officer life insurance premiums
field in the Ms screen should transfer to Schedule M-2, Other Adjustments Account - Other reductions. Also, amounts entered in the
Cash surrender value-officer life
field in the Ms screen should transfer to Schedule M-2, Other Adjustments Account - Other additions.
If you want UltraTax CS to transfer amounts entered in the
Officer life insurance premiums
field to Schedule M-2, Accumulated Adjustments Account - Other reductions, enter code
A
in the
Schedule M-2 code
field. Also, if you want UltraTax CS to transfer amounts entered in the
Cash surrender value-officer life
field to Schedule M-2, Accumulated Adjustments Account - Other additions, enter code
A
in the
Schedule M-2 code
field.
If you don't want UltraTax CS to automatically transfer these amounts to Schedule M-2, don't enter amounts in the
Officer life insurance premiums
and
Cash surrender value-officer life
fields in the Ms screen. Instead, enter the amounts in the
Book expenses not deducted
and
Income on books not on return
statement windows in the Ms screen, respectively. Also, don't enter a Schedule M-2 code for the amounts in the statement window.
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