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The Internal Revenue Service has reversed course, allowing Nationwide and Lincoln Financial in private letter rulings to treat the payment of an advisory fee from a variable, fixed indexed or hybrid nonqualified annuity to qualify as a nontaxable distribution.
The move is being hailed by fee-only advisors as a means for them to get compensated for their advice.
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