Sentence examples for dividend to avoid from inspiring English sources

The rant was apparently in response to a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining Costco's recent issuing of a special dividend to avoid an expected tax hike due to the fiscal cliff.

REUTERS Wal-Mart Moveses Its Dividend to Avoid 'Fiscal Cliff'  |  The retailer announced it would pay out its quarterly dividend on Dec. 27 instead of the previously scheduled date of Jan . 2 a move that "could save as much as $180 million in federal income taxes," Nathaniel Popper reports in The New York Times.

Because executives whose wealth was in options would profit if the stock price went up, but not if the company paid a dividend, companies were inclined to avoid dividends that would benefit their loyal shareholders, and instead repurchase stock.

Their growing friendship could pay mutual dividends, allowing Venezuela to avoid US sanctions and bringing cash into Turkey as it struggles with mounting debt.

By law, REITs must pass 90% of net income on to investors through dividends in order to avoid corporate taxes.

In fact, as companies paid out dividends to shareholders early to avoid the higher tax rate for 2013, personal dividend income increased at a seasonally adjusted monthly rate of 34.3 percent in December, compared with a 4.5 percent rise in November.

Lehman Brothers, in 2004, used the dividend transactions to enable its clients to avoid payment of dividend taxes of $115 million, the report said.

Standard provision that changes the conversion ratio in the case of a stock dividend or extraordinary distribution to avoid dilution of a convertible bondholder's potential equity position.

Perhaps it would never have paid dividends anyway, but those options gave the company's executives good reasons to avoid dividends and concentrate on share buybacks.

Is that a valid reason for companies to avoid dividends?

Dividends are one way to avoid the pressure to boost stock price with rapid growth, Porter said.