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Coupled with the reductions are a spate of revenue-increasing provisions. Taxpayers, under the Ways and Means version of the bill, will no longer be allowed to deduct state and local gas, cigarette and liquor taxes. Although stockholders will be allowed to exclude the first $100 of dividend income from taxable income instead of the first $50-a break for small stockholders-the rule allowing them to subtract 4% of the remaining income was repealed. Tax exemptions will not be permitted for the first 30 days of sick pay or the first $100 of casualty losses. The executive with stock...
...large U.S. merchandising firm on a gauge that profit-minded businessmen watch more closely than any other: return on invested capital. In 1962 the chain earned 21% on its capital, almost twice as high a percentage as A. & P.'s. Last fortnight Winn-Dixie, which has increased its dividend for the 20th consecutive year, announced that fiscal 1963 earnings hit $18.3 million, as sales rose 7.6% to $831 million...
...company keeps 12,000 employees voting nonunion by means of lavish stock-purchase plans and bonuses for faster work. And it keeps stockholders satisfied with monthly dividend checks (minimum check: 9? on a single share). The unique monthly payment system adds $42,000 a year to costs, but Winn-Dixie believes that it helps sales and employee relations. Says J.E.: "Our customers quite often cash their checks in our stores, and when an employee gets a dividend check at the end of each month, man, he's happy." So are the Davises, who predict that sales in the coming...
...Higher Dividends. Behind the market's rebound is the steady flow of better corporate earnings reports, dividend increases and generally good business news. The Commerce Department reported last week that manufacturers' new orders rose 1% during July, total business sales gained 2% to a record $70.7 billion, and in August, outlays for new construction increased 4% . Capital spending plans of business were down, but only slightly, to $39.1 billion for the year, still 5% more than last year...
...yield as so valuable that they dig deep into their reserves when earnings are too low to cover the outlay. This is all right, says Harvard Business School Economist John Lintner, "when the earnings decline is pretty surely temporary. Management will be very often serving stockholders best by maintaining dividend payments and protecting the price of the stock." But some industries have persisted too long in this rearguard action-and steel is one of them. While earnings dropped year after year and the industry lagged in modernization, steelmen kept rewarding stockholders at the same level in order to present...