The 79 Group was an internal faction within the UK General Election. The SNP had polled poorly at the election and this prompted a period of internal questioning by many SNP members about the direction their party should take.
The 79 Group was a leftist organisation committed to the idea that the SNP should be in favour of an independent Scotland being a socialistrepublic. The group was bolstered when many Scottish Labour Party (SLP) members decided to join the SNP after the collapse of the SLP. This made the SNP_left even stronger and they started to exert their influence in the party.
The SNP leadership however took a dim view of internal factions and in the early 1980s they proscribed the 79 Group, along with another internal SNP faction Siol nan Gaidheal. The 79 Group however reformed itself as a cross-party organisation in an attempt to carry on the work it had began, but this resulted in the expulsion from the SNP of many 79 Group leaders (including Alex Salmond who would later become the SNP leader).
The 79 Group leaders successfully appealed their expulsion and once back in the SNP many would go on to high office in the party, including the aforementioned Salmond, as well as Roseanna Cunningham and Kenny MacAskill.
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Section 79 generally permits an employee to exclude from gross income the cost of $50,000 of group-term life insurance carried directly or indirectly by an employer.
Section 79 provides for the cost of the group-term life insurance to be determined on the basis of five-year age brackets prescribed by regulations.
Several comments were received on the topic of the effective date for purposes of determining whether, for purposes of section 79, a policy is carried directly or indirectly by the employer.
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