Earnings are taxed first as corporate profits, then as personal income after dividends are paid.
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Dividends are paid from corporate profits.
Profits paid to stockholders are called dividends.
profits paid out as dividends
Because dividend cover represents the amount of times by which dividends can be paid by profits. i.e. the company's ability to pay it's dividends. The higher the dividend cover the greater the ability of the company to pay dividends out of it's distributable profits. Dividends according to companies act legislation can only be paid out of distributable profits hence the relevance of dividend cover represents the companies ability to pay their dividends.
They are called dividends.
Earnings are taxed first as corporate profits, then as personal income after dividends are paid.
Yes. companies pay out dividends to its share holders from the profit they make out of their business. The more the profit the company makes the greater would be the dividends paid out to the shareholders.
From retained earnings.
By definition, dividends are paid out of profits, they can not be paid out of anything else (not loans, not losses, etc). If the dividends paid exceed profits for the same period the distribution is considered a return of capital (stock basis, additional paid in captial, etc). So an overstated profit WILL reulst in "erosion of capital" if correction of the overstatement results in profits being less than dividends.
Those distributed profits are called dividends, because the profit is divided among the various shareholders.
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