He joined the Wellington Management Co. in 1964, becoming the portfolio manager of the Windsor, Gemini and
Qualified Dividend Funds.
Foreign qualified dividends are the foreign source
qualified dividends the fund paid to a shareholder, plus any foreign taxes withheld on these dividends.
Not exact matches
Equity Income
Funds typically distribute most of their income in the form of
Qualified Dividends, which for many taxpayers are taxed relatively lightly, allowing most Equity Income
Funds and ETFs to be considered High Tax Efficiency investments when compared with other investment options that generate taxable income.
interest from municipal bonds as well as distributions from mutual
funds that
qualify as exempt interest
dividends; this income is generally not subject to regular federal income taxes; note that Fidelity reports this information to the IRS, and may be required to report the information to tax authorities in California among other states; the total amount or a portion of tax - exempt income (reported as specified private activity bond interest) must be taken into account when computing the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) applicable to individuals and may be subject to state and local taxes; you are required to report tax - exempt income on Form 1040, and may be required to report it on your state tax return as well
Caution: Taxable income from an IRA or retirement plan is taxed at ordinary income tax rates even if the
funds represent long - term capital gain or
qualifying dividends from stock held within the plan.
This percentage represents the amount of ordinary
dividends paid (including short - term capital gains distributions) during the
fund's fiscal year, as income
qualifying for the
dividends - received deduction.
And
dividends from stock
funds (including preferred stocks) are typically considered «
qualified income;» although you'll owe taxes, they may be at the lower capital gains rate.
For tax purposes, your
fund company or broker should separate ordinary and
qualified dividends for you in the 1099 - DIV forms.
If you hold these in a taxable account, some of the
dividends received by the
fund may not be
qualified, and hence you'll have to pay taxes at the income - tax rate.
Use Form 1099 - DIV to determine which
dividends from mutual
funds qualify for the maximum 15 % tax rate.
Those
funds, including the
dividends you earn on them, are available for use on
qualifying medical expenses.
In addition to capital gains distributions,
fund distributions may include nonqualified ordinary
dividends (taxed at ordinary income tax rates),
qualified dividends (taxed at rates applicable to long - term capital gains if holding period and other requirements are met), exempt - interest
dividends (not subject to regular federal income tax) and nondividend, or return of capital, distributions, which are not subject to current tax.
This form shows, for each
fund, the percentage of
dividends that are
qualified.
This percentage represents the amount of ordinary
dividends paid (including short - term capital gains distributions) during the
fund's fiscal year, as income
qualifying for the
dividends - received deduction.
Putnam calculates the percentage of each
fund's
Qualifying Dividends eligible for the corporate dividends received d
Dividends eligible for the corporate
dividends received d
dividends received deduction.
The former (http://www.T2PartnersLLC.com) manages three value - oriented private investment partnerships, T2 Accredited
Fund, Tilson Offshore
Fund and T2
Qualified Fund, while the latter is comprised of two value - based mutual
funds, Tilson Focus
Fund and Tilson
Dividend Fund (www.tilsonmutualfunds.com).
Of the $ 1,800 reported as ordinary
dividends for XYZ
fund in line or column 1a of Form 1099 - DIV, only $ 900 would be reported in line or column 1b as a
Qualified Dividend.
Even if your bond ETF or mutual
fund calls their distributions «
dividends», they are not
qualified dividends and are actually interest income.
Now we can see that $ 1 in «
dividends» (really, interest payments) from a bond
fund or individual bond will be less than $ 1 in
qualified dividends from a stock or stock
fund after taxes.
Consider this hypothetical situation in which you have
dividends reported on Form 1099 - DIV as
qualified from shares in XYZ
fund.
Though
funds that employ a long - term investment strategy may pay
qualified dividends, which are taxed at the lower capital gains rate, any
dividend payments increase an investor's taxable income for the year.
To
qualify for special tax treatment, mutual
funds must comply with rules concerning the types of investments they make, the payment of
dividends, and various other matters.
For
qualified dividend and long - term capital gain, the maximum tax rate is 15 % (click here for my previous post on mutual
fund distributions and how they are taxed and here's a related article on Bankrate.com).
A mutual
fund may incur three kinds of distributions:
qualified dividends, capital gain, and ordinary income.
interest from municipal bonds as well as distributions from mutual
funds that
qualify as exempt interest
dividends; this income is generally not subject to regular federal income taxes; note that Fidelity reports this information to the IRS, and may be required to report the information to tax authorities in California among other states; the total amount or a portion of tax - exempt income (reported as specified private activity bond interest) must be taken into account when computing the federal Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) applicable to individuals and may be subject to state and local taxes; you are required to report tax - exempt income on Form 1040, and may be required to report it on your state tax return as well
For the
dividend to be considered as
qualified divident rather than ordinary
dividend, therefore subject to the favoriable tax rate, the
dividends must be paid by a U.S. corporation or a
qualified foreign corporation and the mutual
fund that holds the
dividend - paying stock must have held the equity for more than 60 days during the 121 - day period that begins 60 days before the ex-
dividend date (the first date following the declaration of a
dividend on which the buyer of a stock will not receive the next
dividend payment.
And just an FYI: if you have 500k or more, you
qualify for the J series, where the
Dividend fund cost you 2.18 %, million plus and you are into the U series where roughly half of the former MER is now a management fee and deductible against other forms of investment income and income depending on your province of residence.
How will shareholders know how much of their ordinary income
dividends from mutual
funds are
qualified dividends?
The
Fund invests primarily in common stocks and, in the managers» discretion, preferred stocks around the world that pay
dividends that currently
qualify for taxation at long - term capital gains rates.
Qualified dividends are
dividends that come from stocks held by the
fund for at least 60 days of the 121 - day period that begins 60 days prior to the ex-dividend date.
Stock mutual
funds, however, can distribute ordinary
dividends,
qualified dividends or both.
In order for
dividends passed through by a
fund to be
qualified, the
fund must first meet the more - than -60-days requirement for the individual securities paying the
dividends.
Instead, your reinvested
funds will stay invested (and hopefully grow) and ultimately, someday will be subject to various lower and thus more beneficial tax rates such as
Qualified Dividends, Long term Cap Gains, etc..
The
fund will tell you what part of that $ 200 is
dividend income (as well as what part is Qualified Dividend income), what part is short - term capital gains, and what part is long - term capital gains; you declare the income in the appropriate categories on your tax return, and are taxed acco
dividend income (as well as what part is
Qualified Dividend income), what part is short - term capital gains, and what part is long - term capital gains; you declare the income in the appropriate categories on your tax return, and are taxed acco
Dividend income), what part is short - term capital gains, and what part is long - term capital gains; you declare the income in the appropriate categories on your tax return, and are taxed accordingly.
(Important point: The
dividend reinvested amount does not
qualify for any income tax deduction under Section 80c)(Image courtesy of junpinzon at FreeDigitalPhotos.net)(You may like visiting my post on «Top 5 Best ELSS Mutual
Funds to invest in 2015.»)
Why not use your taxable account to pursue a tax - efficient stock strategy, such as investing in broad stock market index
funds, so you take advantage of the special low rates on long - term capital gains and
qualified dividends?
Qualified and Non-
Qualified dividends are not estimated for
funds that make daily, monthly, or quarterly income distributions.
Under the terms of the Advisory Agreement, each
Fund is responsible for the payment of the following expenses among others: (a) the fees payable to the Adviser, (b) the fees and expenses of Trustees who are not affiliated persons of the Adviser or Distributor (as defined under the section entitled («The Distributor»)(c) the fees and certain expenses of the Custodian (as defined under the section entitled «Custodian») and Transfer and
Dividend Disbursing Agent (as defined under the section entitled «Transfer Agent»), including the cost of maintaining certain required records of the
Fund and of pricing the
Fund's shares, (d) the charges and expenses of legal counsel and independent accountants for the
Fund, (e) brokerage commissions and any issue or transfer taxes chargeable to the
Fund in connection with its securities transactions, (f) all taxes and corporate fees payable by the
Fund to governmental agencies, (g) the fees of any trade association of which the
Fund may be a member, (h) the cost of fidelity and liability insurance, (i) the fees and expenses involved in registering and maintaining registration of the
Fund and of shares with the SEC,
qualifying its shares under state securities laws, including the preparation and printing of the
Fund's registration statements and prospectuses for such purposes, (j) all expenses of shareholders and Trustees» meetings (including travel expenses of trustees and officers of the Trust who are not directors,
When they prepared Form 1099 - DIV, the mutual
fund company didn't know whether you would hold the shares long enough to have a
qualified dividend.
Form 1099 - DIV is used to report ordinary
dividends, total capital gains,
qualified dividends, non-taxable distributions, federal income tax withheld, foreign taxes paid, and foreign source income from investments held by
fund companies.
Among these requirements are the following: (i) at least 90 % of the
fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnersh
fund's gross income each taxable year must be derived from
dividends, interest, payments with respect to securities loans, and gains from the sale or other disposition of stock, securities or foreign currencies, or other income derived with respect to its business of investing in such stock or securities or currencies and net income derived from an interest in a
qualified publicly traded partnership; (ii) at the close of each quarter of the
fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnersh
fund's taxable year, at least 50 % of the value of its total assets must be represented by cash and cash items, U.S. Government securities, securities of other RICs and other securities, with such other securities limited, in respect of any one issuer, to an amount that does not exceed 5 % of the value of a
Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnersh
Fund's assets and that does not represent more than 10 % of the outstanding voting securities of such issuer; and (iii) at the close of each quarter of the
fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnersh
fund's taxable year, not more than 25 % of the value of its assets may be invested in securities (other than U.S. Government securities or the securities of other RICs) of any one issuer or of two or more issuers and which are engaged in the same, similar, or related trades or businesses if the
fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more qualified publicly traded partnersh
fund owns at least 20 % of the voting power of such issuers, or the securities of one or more
qualified publicly traded partnerships.
For corporate investors in the
fund,
dividend distributions the
fund reports to be from
dividends received from
qualifying domestic corporations will be eligible for the 70 % corporate
dividends - received deduction to the extent they would
qualify if the
fund were a regular corporation.
A portion of these distributions may be treated as
qualified dividend income (eligible for the reduced rates to individuals as described below) to the extent that a
fund receives
qualified dividend income.
The
fund may loan portfolio securities to
qualified broker - dealers or other institutional investors provided: (1) the loan is secured continuously by collateral consisting of U.S. government securities, letters of credit, cash or cash equivalents or other appropriate instruments maintained on a daily marked - to - market basis in an amount at least equal to the current market value of the securities loaned; (2) the
fund may at any time call the loan and obtain the return of the securities loaned; (3) the
fund will receive any interest or
dividends paid on the loaned securities; and (4) the aggregate market value of securities loaned will not at any time exceed one - third of the total assets of the
fund, including collateral received from the loan (at market value computed at the time of the loan).
A portion of these distributions may be treated as
qualified dividend income (eligible for the reduced rates to individuals as described below) to the extent that the
fund receives
qualified dividend income.
Dividends received by the
fund from a REIT or another RIC may be treated as
qualified dividend income only to the extent the
dividend distributions are attributable to
qualified dividend income received by such REIT or RIC.
ProShares has added two
funds that require actual growth in
dividends to
qualify for inclusion.
Alaska has the Alaska Permanent
Fund, which for the past 30 or so years has collected some fraction of Alaska's oil revenue and invested it in a broadly diversified portfolio and and provided, from the
dividends of that portfolio, an annual income to every
qualifying permanent resident of Alaska.