Texas § IN.281.004 - RETALIATORY TAXES OR OTHER CHARGES, PROHIBITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS
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§ IN.281.004. RETALIATORY TAXES OR OTHER CHARGES, PROHIBITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS
RETALIATORY TAXES OR OTHER CHARGES, PROHIBITIONS, AND RESTRICTIONS. (a) The comptroller shall impose and collect a tax or other charge or a prohibition or restriction on a foreign insurer authorized to engage in business in this state if: (1) the foreign insurer's state of organization by law imposes a tax or other charge or a prohibition or restriction on a similar domestic insurer that is or may be authorized to engage in business in that other state; and (2) the sum of the taxes or other charges, prohibitions, and restrictions imposed by that other state is more than the sum of the taxes or other charges, prohibitions, and restrictions that this state directly imposes on the foreign insurer. (b) The comptroller shall impose and collect the tax or other charge, prohibition, or restriction under Subsection (a) in the same manner and for the same purpose as the foreign insurer's state of organization. (c) The sum of the taxes or other charges that this state imposes on a foreign insurer under this subchapter may not exceed the sum of the taxes or other charges imposed by the foreign insurer's state of organization on a similar domestic insurer that is or may be authorized to engage in business in that other state. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1274, Sec. 1, eff. April 1, 2005.
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