The following organizations and corporations shall be exempt from taxation under this subchapter:
 1. All state, national, private, cooperative, and savings banks, credit unions, title insurance and trust companies, federally chartered savings and loan associations, production credit associations, insurance companies or insurance associations, reciprocal or inter-insurance exchanges, and fraternal beneficiary associations.

Terms Used In Iowa Code 422.34

  • Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
  • following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • Internal Revenue Code: means the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, prior to the date of its redesignation as the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by the Tax Reform Act of 1986, or means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended and in effect on January 1, 2020. See Iowa Code 422.7
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
  • United States: includes all the states. See Iowa Code 4.1
 2. a. An organization described in section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code unless the exemption is denied under section 501, 502, 503, or 504 of the Internal Revenue Code.

 b. An organization that would have qualified as an organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code but for the fact that the requirement that substantially all of the members who are not past or present members of the United States armed forces is not met because such members include ancestors or lineal descendants, shall be considered for purposes of the exemption from taxation under this subchapter as an organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(19) of the Internal Revenue Code.