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beefield on Dec 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: S&P 500 Buybacks Now Outpace All R&D Spending in t...

> Taxes for all shareholders are deferred until they sell

Sorry, but this is plain out wrong. If you are shareholder and get dividends, you pay taxes. Even before you sell.

sokoloff on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

The issue of dividend taxation is tangent to the issue of capital gains taxation timing.

My apologies if my text was somehow confusing to suggest that I believed shareholders didn’t pay taxes on dividends when received as income.

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