Group-term life insurance purchased for employees

There shall be included in the gross income of an employee for the taxable year an amount equal to the cost of group-term life insurance on his life provided for part or all of such year under a policy (or policies) carried directly or indirectly by his employer (or employers); but only to the extent that such cost exceeds the sum of— Subsection (a) shall not apply to— the cost of any portion of the group-term life insurance on the life of an employee provided during part or all of the taxable year of the employee under which— For purposes of this section and section 6052, the cost of group-term insurance on the life of an employee provided during any period shall be determined on the basis of uniform premiums (computed on the basis of 5-year age brackets) prescribed by regulations by the Secretary. In the case of a discriminatory group-term life insurance plan— the cost of group-term life insurance on the life of any key employee shall be the greater of— For purposes of this subsection, the term “discriminatory group-term life insurance plan” means any plan of an employer for providing group-term life insurance unless— A plan does not meet requirements of subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) unless— For purposes of subparagraph (A), there may be excluded from consideration— A plan does not meet the requirements of paragraph (2)(B) unless all benefits available to participants who are key employees are available to all other participants. A plan shall not fail to meet the requirements of paragraph (2)(B) merely because the amount of life insurance on behalf of the employees under the plan bears a uniform relationship to the total compensation or the basic or regular rate of compensation of such employees. For purposes of this subsection, the term “key employee” has the meaning given to such term by paragraph (1) of section 416(i). Such term also includes any former employee if such employee when he retired or separated from service was a key employee. This subsection shall not apply to a church plan maintained for church employees. For purposes of subparagraph (A), the terms “church plan” and “church employee” have the meaning given such terms by paragraphs (1) and (3)(B) of section 414(e), respectively, except that— the term “church employee” shall not include an employee of— To the extent provided in regulations, this subsection shall be applied separately with respect to former employees. For purposes of this section, the term “employee” includes a former employee. Subsection (b)(3) and section 72(m)(3) shall not apply in the case of any cost paid (whether directly or indirectly) with assets held in an applicable life insurance account (as defined in section 420(e)(4)) under a defined benefit plan.