IRS Publishes Loss Payment Patterns And Discount Factors For 2000.

Rev. Proc. 2000-44

SECTION 1. PURPOSE

This revenue procedure prescribes the loss payment patterns and discount factors for the 2000 accident year. These factors will be used for computing discounted unpaid losses under section 846 of the Internal Revenue Code. See Rev. Proc. 98-11, 1998-1 C.B. 358, for background concerning the loss payment patterns and application of the discount factors.

SEC. 2. SCOPE

This revenue procedure applies to any taxpayer that is required to discount its unpaid losses under section 846 for a line of business using discount factors published by the Secretary.

SEC. 3. TABLES OF DISCOUNT FACTORS

.01 The following tables present separately for each line of business the discount factors under section 846 for accident year 2000. All the discount factors presented in this section were determined using the applicable interest rate under section 846(c) for 2000, which is 6.09 percent, and by assuming all loss payments occur in the middle of the calendar year.

.02 If the groupings of individual lines of business on the annual statement change, taxpayers must discount the unpaid losses on the affected lines of business in accordance with the discounting patterns that would have applied to those unpaid losses based on their classification on the 1995 annual statement. See Rev. Proc. 98-11, 1998-1 C. B. 358, section 2, for additional background on discounting under section 846 and the use of the Secretary's tables.

.03 Section V of Notice 88-100, 1988-2 C.B. 439, provides a composite discount factor to be used in determining the discounted unpaid losses for accident years that are not separately reported on the annual statement. Taxpayers that do not use the methodology set forth in section V of Notice 88-100 should instead use the discount factor for the appropriate year in the Secretary's table for that line of business. If such taxpayers have unpaid losses relating to an accident year that is older than the last accident year for which a discount factor is presented in the Secretary's table, those unpaid losses should be discounted using the discount factor for the last accident year in the Secretary's table. See section 2.03(3) of Rev. Proc. 98-11.

.04 Tables

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The principal author of this revenue procedure is Katherine A. Hossofsky of the Office of the Associate Chief Counsel (Financial Institutions and Products). For further information regarding this revenue procedure, contact Ms. Hossofsky on (202) 622-3477 (not a toll-free number).