Income Taxes Level 3 (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2016

Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Effective Income Tax Rate Reconciliation [Table Text Block]

A reconciliation of the tax provision at the U.S. Federal statutory rate to the provision (benefit) for income taxes is as follows:

	Three Months Ended September 30,						Nine Months Ended September 30,
	2016			2015			2016			2015
Tax provision at the U.S. federal statutory rate	$	32		$	45		$	87		$	194
Dividends-received deduction ("DRD")	(16		)	(35		)	(57		)	(129		)
Foreign related investments	(3		)	2			(6		)	(2		)
Provision for income taxes	$	13		$	12		$	24		$	63