NAIFA Houston held a virtual meeting on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 featuring NAIFA National's Diane R. Boyle focused on the topic of taxes, "Taxing Exercises Beyond Shaking Hands and Kissing Babies". 

2025 will be a year of enormous risk in the tax policy debate needed to address expiring tax provisions, government spending and the federal debt. The scope of potential adverse changes will certainly include tax rules governing life and health insurance, annuities, retirement savings, and employer-provided benefits. Explore how to shape the legislative outcomes to benefit your business and clients regardless of the election results.

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Diane R. Boyle is the senior vice president of government relations for the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Her responsibilities include developing and implementing NAIFA's comprehensive state, interstate, and federal legislative and regulatory strategies and daily executing association activities to provide advocacy services for insurance and financial professionals to support a private, competitive insurance marketplace. She serves as NAIFA’s chief federal lobbyist specializing in tax legislation focused on life and health insurance products, workplace benefits, pensions, and small business issues. Boyle is a proud Capitol-level contributor to IFAPAC and works closely with the political affairs team to develop strategies and programs to maximize NAIFA’s grassroots efforts around the country.

Boyle is an expert NAIFA spokesman on legislative issues with national and trade media outlets. She is a frequent contributor to many NAIFA publications and internet forums. She also represents NAIFA on various industry coalitions and panels and is a regular speaker during NAIFA’s signature events.

Boyle joined the NAIFA family in April of 1991. Before expanding health and workplace benefit representation to all NAIFA members in 2010, she served as the executive vice president for the Association of Health Insurance Advisors, the former health conference of NAIFA. She was instrumental in developing the association’s comprehensive legislative program. Boyle developed the State Legislation Association Planning Process and the award-winning Rx for Health Care Lobbying Kit.

Boyle’s legislative career began in the Louisiana State Legislature, where she served as a legislative assistant for the Jefferson Parish Delegation, consisting of 14 Representatives and seven Senators. She further enhanced her knowledge in the legislative arena by working for two Louisiana Congressmen. A political and public relations consulting firm also employed Boyle, where she developed legislative grassroots programs and public relations strategies for numerous clients.

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