As a Spanish company, the Spanish government will take
dividend witholding tax from this payment before it is paid to a foreign (i.e. non-Spanish resident) shareholder.
Not exact matches
On the thought of foreign
dividend paying stocks, check to ensure the country in question recognizes the TFSA, as of today, the US does not, which means any gains on US securities will be subject to
witholding tax, whereas RRSP is recognized.
Zurich Insurance (7.8 %) and Swiss Re (4.1 %) offer very attractive
dividends and very decent YoC (especially when the reimbursement of the
witholding taxes is taken into consideration).
I wonder an all Claymore portfolio would make sense for someone investing in a TFSA where Vanguard ETF's
dividends would be subject to a 30 % US
witholding tax.
This should be true whether the over payment was due to
witholding tax being witheld by a bank due to failure to provide a TFN on a term deposit or due to tax having already been paid on a share
dividend should.
On UK
dividends there is no
witholding tax neither on certain Swiss
dividends e.g. from UBS, LafargeHolcim, Oerlikon etc. when these businesses distribute out of their reserves.
I am fine with that, the issuance of shares to pay
dividends led to a dilution for existing shareholders, the flipside is that there is a
witholding tax on cash
dividends from Royal Dutch Shell of 15 %, so my income from that wonderful company will be lower than in the previous year (it was around USD 600 in 2017 and will be around USD 500 in 2018).
The
dividend payments in that time period were as follows (in CHF; gross amounts before
witholding tax): 3.00, 2.50, 4.60, 5.00, 6.00.
Burton, unfortunately I don't know any way to avoid the Canadian tax
witholding on MIL
dividends.
use the
dividend credits to lower your taxable income (it is possible to get back most, if not all the
witholding tax on an amount of RRSP withdrawn, when you do your taxes the following year).