INSURER (Foreign): Life/Disability/Health Insurer
INSURER (Foreign): Life/Disability/Health Insurer

Beginning January 1, 2018, all insurers must use the NAIC OPTins system (or a system interfaced with NAIC OPTins) to report and pay insurance premium taxes and installment payments 

  • The Department of Insurance no longer publishes an "Annual Taxes and Fees Data Sheet."
Form E-TAX-I: Annual Tax and Fees Report Instructions

If the insurer's Data Sheet instructs the insurer to complete Form E-TAX, please READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS before proceeding.

Recent Document Updates
DATE DESCRIPTION
01/26/24 Updated instructions uploaded
Form E-TAX: Annual Tax and Fees Report

You must use the NAIC OPTins (www.optins.org) system, or a system that is interfaced to provide reports and payments through the NAIC OPTins system, to file insurance premium tax reports and payments.  Reports and payments filed through the mail will be voided and returned, and will be considered not to have been filed.

Before proceeding with your OPTins tax/fee filing and payment:

  • Please read E-TAX-I instructions.
  • Resolve all errors in forms.  Do not submit a form if it contains cells highlighted with a yellow background or red error text.

Please only use the newest version of tax forms, which are continuously improved from tax preparer feedback and which are configured for use with OPTins.

DATE DESCRIPTION
Recent Document Updates
01/26/24 New version

 

Form E-SGHI: Accountable Health Plan Small-employer Group Health Insurance Plan Premium

An insurer may only report small-employer major medical premium as being tax exempt if

  • the insurer is an accountable health plan AND
  • the insurer issued (major medical) health benefit plans to small employers AND
  • the insurer notified the small employers of the reduction to the premium tax because of the tax exemption (ARS § 20-2304(J)) AND
  • the insurer complied with all other provisions of ARS §§ 20-2301 et seq.
DATE DESCRIPTION
Recent Document Updates
01/26/24 Updated version

 

Form E-TC: Tax Credits

Use this form for an insurer that earned in the current year, carried forward from a prior year or carried forward to a future year a tax credit or offset.

Recent Document Updates
DATE DESCRIPTION
01/26/24 Uploaded new version
Arizona Retaliation Guide

Use this guide when completing Form E-RT to help identify and calculate the taxes, fees, assessments and other obligations that the insurer's domicile imposes upon Arizona insurers. 

Date Description
Recent Document Updates
01/26/24 Updated version posted.

 

Retaliation: Wisconsin-domiciled Insurers

A Wisconsin-domiciled insurer must, for Arizona retaliation purposes, complete the Wisconsin tax and retaliation report the same way that Wisconsin requires an Arizona-domiciled insurer to complete it. 

Form E-RT: Retaliation Report

If the insurer is domiciled in Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, or Rhode Island, do not complete or file Form E-RT.

For all other foreign/alien insurers, filing complete and correct retaliation reports will allow us serve you efficiently, and with minimal hassle.

Before proceeding with completing the Retaliation Report (Form E-RT):

  • Use the Arizona Retaliation Guide to assist you in identifying taxes, fees and assessments to which Arizona-domiciled insurers are subject in your domicile.
  • Resolve all errors in forms.  Do not submit a form if it contains cells highlighted with a yellow background or red error text.

NOTE:  The Arizona Department of Insurance no longer publishes an Annual Taxes and Fees Data Sheet.

Form Updates
Date Description
01/26/24 Posted new version
Form E-TAX-AGENTS:

You must complete this form if the insurer's domicile requires Arizona insurers to pay appointment fees, appointment renewal fees, appointment termination fees, license fees or license renewal fees. Make sure to post the total from this form to Form E-RT.

2023 Additions to the Rates of Tax

Insurers domiciled in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and West Virginia must include the applicable addition to the rate of tax in the insurer's retaliation calculation. 

Form E-INSTALL: Tax Installment Report

Each insurer that has a tax liability during the prior calendar year of $50,000 or more must file an installment payment by the 15th of each month, March through August, of the current year equal to 15% of the prior calendar year tax liability.  ARS § 20-224(F)

Including Form E-INSTALL with your OPTins filing is optional, but recommended if payment is past due in order to calculate late fees.

Insurers MUST use the NAIC OPTins system to pay Arizona tax installments.  ARS § 20-224(K).

Insurance Fee Schedule Fees are nonrefundable upon payment.  ARS § 20-167(A)
Archived Documents

To view previously published "Additions to the Rate of Tax" documents 

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INSURER (Foreign): Life/Disability/Health Insurer