PRINCIPAL MUT. LIFE INS. v. DIV. OF INS.

Nos. S-2517, S-2518.

780 P.2d 1023 (1989)

PRINCIPAL MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. STATE of Alaska, DIVISION OF INSURANCE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Appellee, Cross-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

September 29, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan R. Pollard, William B. Rozell, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan, & Holmes, Juneau, for appellant, cross-appellee.

Jeffrey W. Bush, Asst. Atty. Gen., Grace Berg Schaible, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellee, cross-appellant.

Before MATTHEWS, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, BURKE, COMPTON and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

In 1957, the Alaska legislature amended its tax on insurance premiums to impose a tax rate on insurers based outside of Alaska (hereinafter "foreign insurers") double that imposed on Alaska-based insurers (hereinafter "domestic1 insurers").2 Alaska's differential premium tax remained in effect from 1957 until its repeal in 1986. This repealed tax was codified in Alaska...

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