Title: Editorial Assignment: “How Insurance Affects Your Taxes This Filing Season” on InsuranceQuotes.com We're writing up a story on consumer tax issues going into the April 15 tax deadline. It's an overview of key connections between taxes and insurance lines, including health, home, auto, business taxes on insurers and insurance payouts; how to make the most of your deductibles. It's geared toward insurance checklist guide for people filing their own taxes and how people and businesses can best work with their accountants to communicate their insurance coverage lines. We need these queries answered for the story. 1. What are the big issues with health insurance taxes? How do issues like employee-sponsored coverage, Health Savings Accounts, ACA coverage, Medicare and Medicaid impact filings? Also, are there states with tax penalties for lacking health insurance 2. Are life insurance proceeds taxable? If so, for which instances? 3. On employer-paid disability premiums, are these benefits taxable? Are any premiums tax-free? 4. Are any insurance payouts taxable? Also, are there any other types of insurance that are deductible? 5. How do business taxes on insurers impact what consumers will pay? 6. Are there differences between states and regions on the above topics? 7. What are the biggest insurance-related tax issues right now and why?