Per IRS regulations as of 2011, for individuals
whose ordinary income tax rate is 25 % or higher, qualified dividends are taxed at only a 15 % rate.
And for individuals
whose ordinary income tax rate is below 25 %, qualified dividends are completely tax - free.
Not exact matches
The NUA
tax strategy allows certain clients
whose qualified retirement plans contain these appreciated employer securities to eventually pay
taxes on the appreciated value of those securities at the lower long - term capital gains
tax rate, rather than at the
ordinary income tax rate that would otherwise apply to retirement plan distributions.
The day after the Journal story appeared, Senators Max Baucus and Chuck Grassley proposed legislation that would subject private - equity partnerships like Blackstone,
whose earnings had been
taxed at the lower
rate of «passive
income,» to
ordinary corporate
income taxes.
First, my understanding is that the long - term capital gains
tax rate is 0 % for those
whose marginal
rate on
ordinary income is 10 % or 15 %, and (ignoring the highest 39.6 % bracket) the
rate is 15 % for...
For «lower
income» individuals
whose income falls within the bottom two
ordinary income tax brackets, the Internal Revenue Code applies a 0 % long - term capital gains
rate to the extent their gains also fall within the lower two brackets.