dividend stripping
noun[U]
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thepracticeofsellingsharesjust before adividendispaid, andbuyingthem againafterwards,especiallyinordertoavoidtax:
TheDutchgovernmentissueda newproposalformeasuresagainstdividendstripping.
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dividend stripping
Dividendstrippingwill generally result in money to owners being taxed as dividends, irrespective of interposed steps.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In the case ofdividendstrippingthere is no question that the purchaser is the initiator of the operation.
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Surely this is a most flagrant case of tax avoidance, and might well come under the definition ofdividendstripping.
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In 1955 what is called "dividendstripping" was stopped.
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Every two or three years we get new anti-avoidance legislation with regard todividendstrippingand bond washing.
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It goes on to deal with thedividendstripping, about which we have heard a good deal today.
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That deals with different forms ofdividendstripping, one of the most recent of which is stripping not so much of dividends as of assets.
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There was a simple form ofdividendstrippingin operation just before 1955.
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No doubt it has done so with the intention ofdividendstripping, but nodividendstrippinghas actually taken place.
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Apparently, no one thought ofdividendstrippingby proxy.
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