For those who want the dividends trust brings -- from greater profitability, collaboration, and customer service to higher engagement, productivity, dialogue, innovation, and sustainability, the workplaces, schools, and communities of the future applaud you, need you, and are waiting for you".
Although oil and gas prices are quoted in dollars, the dividends these trusts pay are denominated in Canadian dollars, so the yield rose 12.5% as that currency rose from 80 cents to a recent 90 cents per U.S. dollar.
Certainly, the wonderfully high trust dividend yields, ranging from 10% to 14%, remind you that you're being paid for taking on considerable risk.
Governments that can demonstrate that they are reliable, fair and responsive can reap a trust dividend with tangible economic and social benefits.
While the 15% rate applies to most corporate payouts, that's not the case for most real estate investment trust dividends or for bond fund dividends, which are really interest and are taxed at ordinary income rates of up to 35%.
And the payouts will be taxed as income, rather than as dividends, because the trust does not pay corporate taxes.
The assets are separate from dividends, interest payments, trust distributions and Social Security payments, which have long been eligible for consideration when calculating a borrower's qualifying income.
When I was twelve, I first became aware of the world's suffering, and I used the dividends from my trust fund to fly to Berlin to help the victims of the recent tsunami.
Even more reason for caution: Both the qualified dividend and the trusts' corporate tax exemption expire on Dec. 31, 2010.
There is a proposal in Canada to limit foreign ownership of shares to 50%, aiming to bring in higher tax revenues from Canadians, who pay ordinary-income rates on royalty trust dividends.
