(1) Each insurer transacting wet marine and transportation insurance in this state shall file annually on or before June 15 with the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services and in the form prescribed by the director, a report of all the items pertaining to its insurance business as enumerated and prescribed in ORS 731.824.
(2) Each insurer that has been writing such insurance in this state for three years shall furnish the director a statement of all of the items referred to in subsection (1) of this section, in the form prescribed by the director, for each of the preceding three calendar years. An insurer that has not been writing such insurance for three years shall furnish to the director a statement of all such items for each of the calendar years during which it has written such insurance.
(3) On or before June 15 of each year, if the insurer has transacted such insurance for three years, the insurer shall:
(a) Ascertain the average annual underwriting profit, as provided in ORS 731.824, derived by the insurer from such insurance business written within the United States during the last preceding three calendar years.
(b) Ascertain the proportion which the average annual premiums of the insurer from such insurance written by it in this state during the last preceding three calendar years bears to the average total of such wet marine and transportation insurance premiums of the insurer during the same three years.
(c) Pay five percent on this proportion of the average annual underwriting profit of the insurer from such insurance to the director as a tax upon such insurance written by it in this state during the current calendar year.
(4) The insurer each year shall compute the tax, according to the method described in this section, upon the average annual underwriting profit of such insurer from such insurance during the preceding three years, including the current calendar year. At the expiration of each current calendar year, the profit or loss on such insurance business of that year is to be added or deducted, and the profit or loss upon such insurance business of the first calendar year of the preceding three-year period is to be dropped so that the computation of underwriting profit for purposes of taxation under this section will always be on a three-year average.
(5) An insurer that has not been writing wet marine and transportation insurance in this state for three years shall, until it has transacted such business in this state for that number of years, be taxed on the basis of its annual underwriting profit on such insurance written within the United States for the current calendar year, subject, however, to an adjustment in the tax as soon as the insurer, in accordance with the provisions of this section, is enabled to compute the tax on the three-year basis.
(6) In the case of mutual insurers the insurer shall not include in the underwriting profit, when computing the tax prescribed by this section, the amounts refunded by such insurers on account of premiums previously paid by their policyholders.
(7) If the director, during the period in which the director under ORS 731.836 may collect taxes owing under this section, finds the amount of such taxes paid by an insurer to have been incorrect, the director shall charge or credit the insurer with the difference between the correct amount of tax and the amount actually paid.
(8) If an insurer ceases to transact wet marine and transportation insurance in the state, it shall thereupon make report to the director of the items pertaining to such insurance business, as enumerated and described in this section, to the date of its ceasing to transact such insurance and not theretofore reported, and forthwith pay to the director the taxes computed according to this section and the annual authorization fees thereon. [Formerly 745.150; 1969 c.158 §1; 1975 c.250 §1; 1989 c.700 §7]
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