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- @051 CHAP 8
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- │ DIVIDENDS RECEIVED DEDUCTION FOR CORPORATIONS │
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- Corporations (other than S corporations) are entitled to a
- significant tax break on their investments in dividend-
- paying common or preferred stocks. A so-called "C corpor-
- ation" (which is simply a regular corporation that hasn't
- made an S corporation election) gets to exclude from tax-
- able income 70% of the dividends it receives from another
- corporation (80% if it owns 20% or more of the stock of the
- other corporation). This can be a significant tax benefit
- of being a C corporation if your company has funds to in-
- vest, as compared to an S corporation or an unincorporated
- business.
-
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- │EXAMPLE: If your corporation receives $1,000 in divi-│
- │dends from an investment in General Motors stock, only│
- │$300 would be taxable for federal income tax purposes.│
- │Even if your corporation were in the 34% corporate tax│
- │bracket, the federal tax on those dividends would be│
- │34% of $300, or $102, which is a maximum effective tax│
- │rate of only 10.2% of the dividends received. The ef-│
- │fective tax rate would only be 4.5% if the corporation│
- │were in the 15% tax bracket. │
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- Note, however, that this deduction will be reduced if your
- corporation borrows money (on which it pays interest) to
- purchase dividend-paying stocks.
-
- @IF118xx]NOTE: @NAME is not a C corporation.
- @IF118xx]
- @IF118xx]Thus, even though your business is incorporated, as an S
- @IF118xx]corporation, it will not qualify for the dividends received
- @IF118xx]deduction on any dividend income it receives.
- @IF118xx]
- @CODE: HI CA AZ
- @CODE:NF
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- DIVIDENDS RECEIVED DEDUCTION DIFFERS IN @STATE
-
- @CODE:OF
- @CODE: HI
- Hawaii does not allow a "dividends received" deduction to
- corporations, generally, unlike the federal 70% or 80% de-
- duction. However, Hawaii does allow an 80% dividends re-
- ceived deduction in certain limited situations, such as
- the following:
-
- . Dividends received from banks and insurance
- companies doing business in Hawaii;
-
- . Dividends received from a corporation that
- does at least 15% of its business in Hawaii;
- or
-
- . Dividends received from a corporation that is
- 95%-owned by corporations doing business in
- Hawaii, if the paying corporation is subject
- to tax in another jurisdiction (another state,
- for example).
-
- @CODE:OF
- @CODE: CA
- California allows corporations a dividends received deduc-
- tion of a sort, which is now somewhat similar to the 70%
- or 80% deduction allowed under the federal tax law. Under
- the California franchise tax law, the percentage of divi-
- dends received that may be nontaxable is based on the per-
- centage of the income of the payor corporation that is sub-
- ject to tax in California (a percentage that can be obtained
- by contacting the California Franchise Tax Board). This
- percentage, once determined, is then multiplied by another
- percentage, based on the amount of the stock of the payor
- that is owned by the taxpayer corporation, as follows:
-
- Over 50% of stock owned - 100%
- 20% to 50% stock ownership - 80%
- Under 20% stock ownership - 70%
-
- The resulting percentage is the portion of the total divi-
- dend that is non-taxable to the recipient corporation under
- California tax law. For example, if CALCO owns under 20%
- of the stock of XYZ Corporation, and 40% of XYZ's income is
- subject to tax in California, CALCO would be entitled to
- a deduction of 70% x 40%, or only 28% of any dividends it
- received from XYZ. This is not nearly as advantageous as
- the 70% deduction that would be allowed under federal tax
- law in the same situation.
-
- @CODE:OF
- @CODE: AZ
- Under Arizona's tax regulations (Regulation R15-2-1128),
- cash dividends that a corporation receives from another
- corporation may be subtracted from the Arizona gross in-
- come of the recipient corporation if, for the tax year
- preceding payment of the dividend:
-
- . the paying corporation was required to (and did) file an
- Arizona income tax return;
-
- . the income of the corporation that paid the dividend was
- subject to Arizona income tax; and
-
- . the corporation paying the dividend attributed at least
- 50% of its net income to Arizona.
-
- @CODE:OF