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Making dividend payments tax deductible, which would start to level the playing field, might be easier and more popular.
It pressures directors into making dividend payouts, even at the expense of cutting investment in research and development.
Standard & Poor's Dow Jones Indices calculated that at midyear, 54 percent of companies with market capitalizations of at least $100 million were making dividend payouts, up from 52 percent at the end of 2012.
Among smaller companies — defined as having market capitalization of less than $100 million — the proportion of companies making dividend distributions has always been smaller, but it too is growing.
The fall in the shares took place after the bank admitted that its attempts to start making dividend payments to shareholders had been pushed back from the first quarter of 2017.
The new tax law cut the maximum rate on dividends to 15percentt, making dividend income more attractive for investors who had paid ordinary income tax rates, which range up to 35percentt.
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President Bush has proposed making dividends tax-free to individuals, provided they are paid by corporations that paid taxes.
Calculations by the Tax Policy Center, a nonprofit research group run by the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, indicate that the wealthiest 1percentt of all taxpayers would receive 42percentt of the savings from making dividends to shareholders tax-free.
As I mentioned, I don't advise making dividend-paying value stocks your only strategy.
This makes dividend investing tricky.
The simplest would be to make dividend payments tax-deductible to companies.
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