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The Causes and Consequences of Repurchasing Shares

Reynolds Holding

firms have more than tripled inflation-adjusted dividends, while real share repurchase values have ballooned from $5 billion in 1971 to almost $1 trillion in 2018 and become the dominant form of payout. New research shows that firms do not directly substitute repurchases for dividends; often these payouts complement one another.

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The Corporate Tax Burden: Facts and Fiction

Musings on Markets

For instance, the 2017 US tax reform act, in addition to lowering the corporate tax rate, also changed the way that foreign income to US companies was taxed and put limits on the tax deductibility of debt. and the cash tax rate by 2.75%. In addition, changes in tax law take a while to work their way into corporate behavior.