Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71522 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 05/17
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We present empirical evidence which suggests that a big increase in dividend taxation for UK pension funds in July 1997 affected the form in which some UK companies chose to make dividend payments, but otherwise had limited effects on both the level of dividend payments and the level of investment. These findings are consistent with a version of the 'new view' of dividend taxation. We also identify a group of firms whose dividend choices are difficult to reconcile with (stock market) value maximisation.
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Working Paper

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