Sentence examples for dividend deduction from inspiring English sources

And since the dividend deduction doesn't appear to be related to profitability, companies could borrow to pay dividends and still get the deduction.

In its two-year life, the Seventy-third Congress raised tax rates, ended the tax-exempt status of corporate dividends, limited deductions for capital depreciation, and approved the exercise of eminent domain.

The fee should be given to the public in toto, as a uniform dividend, payroll tax deduction or both.

That's with dividends reinvested, no deduction for loads, the.

In its prospectus of November 1900, the company forecast that it would realise £260,000 a year from passenger traffic, with working expenses of £100,000, leaving £138,240 for dividends after the deduction of interest payments.

The same effect could be achieved by allowing corporations a deduction for dividends it has paid.

But it isn't: it's a tax on all business income, defined as sales minus purchased inputs and dividends — but with no deduction for wages.

Under current law, a company pays corporate income taxes on its profits, and receives no deduction for dividends it pays to shareholders.

To test the four programs, a sample set of figures was entered for a single filer with these tax considerations for 2001: salary income and tax withholding reported on form W-2, four security sales, interest and dividend income and itemized deductions for state and local taxes, mortgage interest and charitable contributions.

The company had set aside reserves pending the outcome of a dispute with the I.R.S. over tax deductions on dividend payments to the holders of $4 billion of preferred stock in two real estate investment trusts it formed in 1997, said Michael Cosgrove, a spokesman for the company.

The solution: Give businesses a deduction for dividends paid (net of money raised through new stock issuance).