About Dividends:
My old-old-old- company gave me some shares of the company and this year their 1099 Dividend form was holding up my tax refund. It bugs me that dividends are considered income when automatically reinvested.
Then I saw this about dividends:
youtu.be/f5j9v9dfinQ
I was really happy about my rental property taxes or lack of taxes this year .
Half my retirement income is from dividends, :laughing
Half my retirement income is from dividends, :laughing
Half my retirement income is from dividends, :laughing
I'm sure you know that if your stocks did not pay dividends but did increase in value accordingly, you can sell some shares for your income and have the same end result.
Might be a tax difference though, not sure how that works.
Thanks
Actually the tax difference is favorable to selling stock for income, long term cap gains tax is really low.
However, dividends tend to weather storms, while stock price bounce up and down.
Thanks
Actually the tax difference is favorable to selling stock for income, long term cap gains tax is really low.
However, dividends tend to weather storms, while stock price bounce up and down.
The exception being...
"Nonqualified dividends, such as those paid by real estate investment trusts (REITs), are taxed at the regular income rate."
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/090415/dividend-income-taxable.asp
Decent losses today. Might be a good day to invest
Does AT+T's (T) purchase and sale of Direct TV, make you feel like you know what you're doing by comparison, and is now a good time to buy their stock?
AT&T has been so utterly saddled with debt that it has become a small country, servicing debt, while cutting service to its citizens and borrowing against their future earnings. I got out and might get back in at $20. Maybe. For reference, AT&T was at the current price ten years ago, only with inflation, it's worth far less than it was ten years ago.