Total premium is entitled for deductions under Sec. 80C of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The entire claim amount payable on death is free from income-tax deduction under Sec. 10(10D) of Income Tax Act, 1961.
Summary of section 45 of Insurance Act, 1938: No policy of life insurance shall, after the expiry of two years from the date on which it was effected, be called in question by the insurer on the ground that a statement made in the proposal for insurance or in any report of a medical officer, or referee, or friend of the insured, or in any other document leading to the issue of the policy, was inaccurate or false, unless the insurer shows that such statement was on a material matter or suppressed facts which it was material to disclose and that it was fraudulently made by the policyholder and that the policyholder knew at the time of making it that the statement was false or it suppressed facts which it was material to disclose.
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