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Exclusion Ratio

Exclusion Ratio

The percentage of an investor's return that is not subject to taxes. The exclusion ratio is a percentage with a dollar amount equal to the payback on one's initial investment. Any return above the exclusion ratio is subject to taxes. Most of the time, the exclusion ratio applies to non-qualified annuities.
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The "exclusion ratio" is $100,000 over $120,000 (investment/assumed return), or 5/6.
72, amounts distributed are divided into taxable and nontaxable portions using an exclusion ratio. The exclusion ratio is determined by dividing the amount the employee previously included in income (i.e., the investment in the contract or basis) by the total amount of the expected payout of the trust interest (i.e., the expected return).
The rationale for the increase to 85% was based on an established principle of annuity taxation called the exclusion ratio. This ratio is the relationship of total (after-tax) payments made by the annuitant to the total expected payout over the life of the annuity.
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