(a) A foreign insurance company that takes out or renews a license to transact business in this state shall, upon the expiration of their license for any cause, or upon their ceasing to transact new business in this state, continue to pay the same tax upon its business remaining in force in this state, and in like manner and at like times as other duly licensed insurance companies of the same class are required to pay by any current law in force at that time.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-4-215

  • Foreign: when used without limitation, includes all companies formed by authority of any other state or government. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
  • insurance company: means any insurance, fidelity or surety company, including any corporation, company, partnership, association, society, order, fraternal or otherwise, individual or aggregation of individuals engaging in, or proposing or attempting to engage in, any kind of insurance or surety business, including the exchanging of reciprocal or interinsurance contracts between individuals, partnerships and corporations. See Tennessee Code 56-4-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(b) Such foreign companies that fail to pay the taxes required of them by this section, within sixty (60) days after the taxes are due, shall be liable for a penalty of fifty percent (50%) in addition to the taxes, recoverable at law or in equity.
(c) Compliance with this section shall be a condition upon which any foreign insurance company shall be authorized to obtain or renew a license, and the acceptance of these terms or conditions shall be conclusively presumed from the taking out or the renewing of the license.
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