Dividends

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jan 7 12:32:20 PST 2003


Daniel Davies wrote:


> Doug wrote, in re dividend tax reform:
>
>>>What's so good about it?
>
>Double taxation of dividends is a subsidy to gearing.

So eliminate the deductibility of interest!

U.S. corps are generally less leveraged than their European or Japanese counterparts. I don't know anything about foreign corporate tax systems, but I suspect the explanations are more related to financial and governance structures than to the tax codes.

Doug



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