tax rates on individual dividend income from zero to 28 percent. We document strong timing effects on dividend payout on a … corporations' debt-equity ratios. The debt ratios drop sharply after the implementation of the reform. -- Neutral dividend tax …

This paper examines how the effects of dividend taxation on the cost of new equity funds depend on whether or not … shareholders can recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax. We point out the alternative … that the shareholders cannot recover their original equity injections without being subject to the dividend tax …

take into account financial constraints on dividend policy faced by firms investing in both the United States and the … United Kingdom. The paper incorporates financial constraints on dividend policy into the analytical framework for the … stable. -- capital income taxation ; dividend policy ; effective marginal tax rates ; financial constraints …

We test whether dividend taxes affect corporate investments. We exploit Sweden's 2006 dividend tax cut of 10 percentage … data and triple-difference estimators, we find that this dividend tax cut affects allocation of corporate investment. Cash …-constrained firms increase investment after the dividend tax cut relative to cash-rich firms. Reallocation is stronger among closely …