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If the dividends you receive are classified as qualified dividends, you pay taxes on them at the capital gains rate.The capital gains rate is often lower than the tax rate on non-qualified or ...
For certain preferred stocks, that holding period increases to at least 91 days out of the 181-day period that began 90 days before the preferred’s ex-dividend date. Qualified dividend status ...
To be taxed at the qualified dividend rate, the dividend must: be paid after December 31, 2002; be paid by a U.S. corporation, by a corporation incorporated in a U.S. possession, by a foreign corporation located in a country that is eligible for benefits under a U.S. tax treaty that meets certain criteria, or on a foreign corporation’s stock that can be readily traded on an established U.S ...
The qualified dividend tax rate was set to expire December 31, 2008; however, the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 (TIPRA) extended the lower tax rate through 2010 and further cut the tax rate on qualified dividends to 0% for individuals in the 10% and 15% income tax brackets.
Another case where income is not taxed as ordinary income is the case of qualified dividends. The general rule taxes dividends as ordinary income. A change allowing use of the same tax rates as is used for long term capital gains rates for qualified dividends was made with the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. [1]
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Ordinary Dividends vs. Qualified Dividends: The Background Before 2003, all dividends were ordinary dividends and recipients paid taxes on them at their usual individual marginal rate.
Dividends paid to investors by corporations come in two kinds – ordinary and qualified – and the difference has a large effect on the taxes that will be owed. Ordinary dividends are taxed as ...