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The ex-dividend date (coinciding with the reinvestment date for shares held subject to a dividend reinvestment plan) is an investment term involving the timing of payment of dividends on stocks of corporations, income trusts, and other financial holdings, both publicly and privately held.
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This is a list of publicly traded companies that offer their shareholders the option to be paid with scrip dividends. Name Country ACS [1] Spain: Banco Santander [2]
In the financial history of the world, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) was the first recorded (public) company ever to pay regular dividends. [4] [5] The VOC paid annual dividends worth around 18 percent of the value of the shares for almost 200 years of existence (1602–1800).
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However, dividends or distributions of more than 25% are subject to 'special' rules for ex-dividend dates. The major difference here is that for these larger distributions or dividends, the ex-dividend date is set as the day after payment (with the day of payment being the "payment date"). [4] For these larger 'special dividends', the ex ...
However, since 1 June 1997, all domestic companies were liable to pay a dividend distribution tax on the profits distributed as dividends resulting in a smaller net dividend to the recipients. The rate of taxation alternated between 10% and 20% [ 23 ] until the tax was abolished with effect from 31 March 2002. [ 24 ]