This paper tests several competing hypotheses about the economic effects of dividend taxation. It employs British data … on security returns, dividend payout rates, and corporate investment, because unlike the United States, Britain has … experienced several major dividend tax reforms in the last three decades. These tax changes provide an ideal natural experiment …

persistently affects dividend payments than stock repurchases. It also has a boosting effect on stock returns in the Bush Tax Cut … that is 75 % greater than their reducing effect in the Obama Tax Increase, in absolute terms, controlling for dividend … realize that some dividend-paying firms could change their dividend policies …

present study attempts to capture the impact of dividend distribution tax elimination, introduced through the Indian Finance … Act 2020, on corporate dividend behavior in India. It explores the determinants of dividend payouts, changing payout … decisions, dividend behavior of regular payers, and the prevalence of factors associated with changing payouts. Out of the top …

This paper tests several competing hypotheses about the economic effects of dividend taxation. It employs British data … on security returns, dividend payout rates, and corporate investment, because unlike the United States, Britain has … experienced several major dividend tax reforms in the last three decades. These tax changes provide an ideal natural experiment …

We analyze the effects of dividend taxation in a general equilibrium business cycle model with an occasionally …-binding investment credit limit. Permanent dividend tax reforms distort capital investment decisions in the binding long-run equilibrium … the `traditional' and `new' views of dividend taxation, and highlights the importance of measuring the firm's initial …