Sentence examples for preferential dividend from inspiring English sources

The preferred stockholders are entitled to a preferential dividend, usually at a fixed rate, and the common stockholders get a portion of what remains after payment of the dividends on preferred stock.

Those concerned with interest rate fluctuations should also consider the Nuveen Tax-Advantaged Floating Rate Fund JFPP, 2.50), which provides both a steady monthly income and (for the next seven months, anyway) preferential dividend tax rates.

They also would have paid that amount if all of their income had been from stock dividends; there was no preferential treatment for dividends at that point.

And if you actually read the TPC report, you find that the big tax preferences benefiting the top 1 percent are the preferential rates on dividends and capital gains — precisely the tax rates Ryan insists must not be raised.

Besides recycling the proposed tax increases of previous years, it also proposes repealing the preferential tax rate on dividends for the wealthy, and penalising multinationals that outsource jobs.

Rather, he objects because the rule substitutes a complicated solution for what should be a simple fix: ending the preferential treatment for stock dividends and capital gains.

So the taxpayer is also providing the wherewithal to fund participation in the protection scheme by subscribing for £6.5bn in special "B shares", which will have preferential rights to future dividends.

Will the Bush tax cuts, including the preferential 15% tax on dividends, be extended?

Mr Romney has pledged not to raise the preferential rate on capital gains and dividends; 75% of those benefits go to the top 1% of households.

The appeal for Republicans is that no one's rates go up, and the preferential rate for capital gains and dividends is preserved.

"It's a mystery to me why the discussion has only focused on itemized deductions rather than capping total expenditures, like the preferential rate for capital gains and dividends," William Gale, co-director of the Tax Policy Center, said.