All you can
do as an individual dividend investor is tune out the noise, stay diversified among your holdings and make sure the dividend remains covered.
Not exact matches
I absolutely
do not believe that mutual funds are a better investment than
individual stocks (companies that pay rising
dividends over time) over the long run, so I invest the rest of my savings in a taxable account (
as well
as maxing out my Roth IRA every year, of which
individual stocks are purchased).
If you have a single jurisdiction that can control the entire corporate tax system, one of the easiest and most common ways to integrate corporate and
individual level income taxes is to impose taxes on corporate profits at the corporate level, but then to give recipients of
dividends who are subject to domestic income taxes a credit equal to the percentage of income paid by the
dividend paying corporation, treating the corporate income tax
as a withholding tax that becomes final when
dividends are distributed to foreign taxpayers who don't pay domestic income taxes.
If an
individual receives income from interest,
dividends, pension proceeds, social security or unemployment benefits, alimony or child support, these
do not count
as earned income for purposes of the tax credit.
As a result,
individual taxpayers will
do away with paying interest,
dividends and other business tax.