Post-Effective Amendment to Registration Statement by Investment Company (Form 485BPOS)

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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Pre-Effective Amendment No.
Post-Effective Amendment No. 17	X

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

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Amendment No. 119

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PART C

OTHER INFORMATION

Item 27. Financial Statements and Exhibits

(h)	Participation Agreements.

(1)	Participation Agreement between AIM Variable Insurance Funds, Inc., A I M Distributors Inc., Kansas City Life Insurance Company, and Sunset Financial Services, Inc. (6)

a.	Amendment to Participation Agreement between AIM Variable Insurance Funds, Inc., A I M Distributors Inc., Kansas City Life Insurance Company, and Sunset Financial Services, Inc. (6)

b.	Amendment to Participation Agreement between AIM Variable Insurance Funds, Inc., A I M Distributors Inc., Kansas City Life Insurance Company, and Sunset Financial Services, Inc. (6)

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(18) Incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 16 to the Registration Statement on Form N-4 for Kansas City Life Variable Annuity Separate Account filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 29, 2025 (File No. 033-165116).

(19) Filed herewith.

Item 28. Directors and Officers of the Depositor

* The principal business address of all the persons listed above is 3520 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri 64111-2565.

Item 29. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Depositor or Registrant

Item 30. Indemnification

The By-Laws of Kansas City Life Insurance Company provide, in part, in Article XII:

1. The Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, other than an action by or in the right of the Company, by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a Director, Officer or employee of

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the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a Director, Officer or employee of another company, partner ship, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses, including attorneys' fees, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction or upon a plea of nolo contender or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful.

2. The Company shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer or employee of the company, or is or was serving at the request of the company as a director, officer or employee of another company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against expenses, including attorneys' fees, actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with the defense or settlement of the action or suit if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the company; except that no indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable for negligence or misconduct in the performance of his or her duty to the company unless and only to the extent that the court in which the action or suit was brought determines upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability and in view of all the circumstances of the case, the person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the court shall deem proper.

3. To the extent that a Director, Officer or employee of the Company has been successful on the merits or otherwise in defense of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Sections 1 and 2 of this Article, or in defense of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she shall be indemnified against expenses, including attorneys' fees, actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection with the action, suit or proceeding.

4. Any indemnification under Sections 1 and 2 of this Article, unless ordered by a court, shall be made by the Company only as authorized in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the director, Officer or employee is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in this Article. The determination shall be made by the Board of Directors of the Company by a majority vote of a quorum consisting of Directors who were not parties to the action, suit or proceeding, or, if such a quorum is not obtainable, or, even if obtainable a quorum of disinterested Directors so directs, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or by the Stockholders of the Company.

5. Expenses incurred in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding may be paid by the Company in advance of the final disposition of the action, suit or proceeding as authorized by the Board of Directors in the specific case up on receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of the Director, Officer or employee to repay such amount unless it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is entitled to be indemnified by the Company as authorized in this Article.

6. The indemnification provided by this Article shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification may be entitled under the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws, or any agreement, vote of Stockholders or disinterested Directors or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer or employee and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person.

7. The Company shall have the power to give any further indemnity, in addition to the indemnity authorized or contemplated under this Article, including subsection 6, to any person who is or was a Director, Officer, employee or agent of the Company, or to any person who is or was serving at the request of the Company as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, provided such further indemnity is either (i) authorized, directed, or provided for in the Articles of Incorporation of the Company or any duly adopted amendment thereof or (ii) is authorized, directed, or provided for in any bylaw or agreement of the Company which has been adopted by a vote of the Stockholders of the Company, and provided further that no such indemnity shall indemnify any person from or on account of such person's conduct which was finally adjudged to have been knowingly fraudulent, deliberately dishonest, or willful misconduct . Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to limit the power of the Company under subsection 6 of this Bylaw to enact Bylaws or to enter into agreement without Stockholder adoption of the same.

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8. The Company may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a Director, Officer, employee or agent of the Company, or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any liability asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in any such capacity, or arising out of his or her status as such, whether or not the Company would have the power to indemnify him or her against such liability under the provisions of this Article.

9. For the purpose of this Article, references to "the Company" include all constituent corporations absorbed in a consolidation or merger as well as the resulting or surviving corporation so that any person who is or was a Director, Officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a Director, Officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise shall stand in the same position under the provisions of this Article with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would if he or she had served the resulting or surviving corporation in the same capacity.

10. For purposes of this Article, the term "other enterprise" shall include employee benefit plans; the term "fines" shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan; and the term "serving at the request of the Company" shall include any service as a Director, Officer or employee of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such Director, Officer or employee with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants, or beneficiaries; and a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonable believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner "not opposed to the best interests of the Company" as referred to in this Article.

11. Any Director, Officer or employee of the Company shall be indemnified under this Article for any act taken in good faith and upon reliance upon the books and records of the Company, upon financial statements or other reports prepared by the Officers of the Company, or on financial statements prepared by the Company's independent accountants, or on information or documents prepared or provided by legal counsel to the Company.

12. To the extent that the indemnification of Officers, Directors or employees as permitted under Section 351.355 (as amended or superseded) of The General and Business Corporation Law of Missouri, as in effect from time to time, provides for greater indemnification of those individuals than the provisions of this Article XII, then the Company shall indemnify its Directors, Officers, employees as provided in and to the full extent allowed by Section 351.355.

13. The indemnification provided by this Article shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a Director or Officer of the Company and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such a person. All rights to indemnification under this Article shall be deemed to be provided by a contract between the Company and the person who serves in such capacity at any time while these Bylaws and other relevant provisions of the applicable law, if any, are in effect. Any repeal or modification thereof shall not affect any rights or obligations then existing.

14. If this Article or any portion or provision hereof shall be invalidated on any ground by any court of competent jurisdiction, then the Company shall nevertheless indemnify each person entitled to indemnification pursuant too this Article to the full extent permitted by any applicable portion of this Article that shall not have been invalidated, or to the fullest extent provided by any other applicable law.

Missouri law authorizes Missouri corporations to provide indemnification to directors, officers and other persons.

Kansas City Life owns a directors and officers liability insurance policy covering liabilities that directors and officers of Kansas City Life and its subsidiaries and affiliates may incur in acting as directors and officers.

Insofar as indemnification for liability arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

Item 31. Principal Underwriter

(a) Sunset Financial Services, Inc. is the registrant's principal underwriter.

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(b) Officers and Directors of Sunset Financial:

* The principal business address of all of the persons listed above is P.O. Box 219365, Kansas City, Missouri, 64121-9365

(c) Compensation from the Registrant. The following commissions and other compensation were received by each principal underwriter, directly or indirectly, from the Registrant during the Registrant's last fiscal year:

Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records

All of the accounts, books, records or other documents required to be kept by Section 31(a) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and rules thereunder, are maintained by Kansas City Life at 3520 Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri 64111-2565.

Item 33. Management Services

All management contracts are discussed in Part A or Part B of this registration statement.

Item 34. Fee Representation

Kansas City Life Insurance Company represents that the aggregate charges under the Contracts are reasonable in relation to the services rendered, the expenses expected to be incurred and the risks assumed by Kansas City Life Insurance Company.

Representation Required in Connection with Offering the Contract as Funding Vehicles for 403(b) Retirement Plans

Kansas City Life represents that in connection with its offering of the Contracts as funding vehicles for retirement plans meeting the requirements of Section 403(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, it is relying on no-action letters dated November 28, 1988, to the American Council of Life Insurance (Ref. No. IP-6-88)(the "ACLI Letter"), and dated August 30, 2012, to ING Life and Annuity Company (the "ING Letter"), regarding Sections 22(e), 27(c)(1), and 27(d) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, and that it has complied with paragraphs numbered (1) through (4) of the ACLI Letter, as modified by the ING Letter, and the additional terms of the ING Letter.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant, Kansas City Life Variable Annuity Separate Account, certifies that it meets all of the requirements of Securities Act Rule 485(b) for effectiveness of this Registration Statement and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 17 to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized, and its seal to be hereunto affixed and attested, all in the City of Kansas City and the State of Missouri on the 13th day of October, 2025.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 17 to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date(s) indicated.

Signature

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Date

______/s/ Walter E. Bixby_____ Walter E. Bixby	President, CEO, Vice Chairman of the Board and Director (Principal Executive Officer)	October 13, 2025
____/s/ David A. Laird_______ David A. Laird	Senior Vice President, Finance, CFO and Director (Principal Financial Officer)	October 13, 2025
_____/s/ Jennifer K. Pieper____ Jennifer K. Pieper	Vice President and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer)	October 13, 2025
______/s/ R. Philip Bixby______ R. Philip Bixby	Chairman of the Board and Director	October 13, 2025
_____/s/ A. Craig Mason Jr.____ A. Craig Mason Jr.	Secretary and Director	October 13, 2025
___________________________ Kevin G. Barth	Director	October 13, 2025
_____/s/ William R. Blessing___ William R. Blessing	Director	October 13, 2025
___________________________ Michael Braude	Director	October 13, 2025
______/s/ James T. Carr________ James T. Carr	Director	October 13, 2025
___________________________ John C. Cozad	Director	October 13, 2025