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...overlooked aspects of President George W. Bush’s plan to provide dividend tax relief is the selective awarding of those benefits to shareholders of corporations that pay federal taxes. In other words, firms that report profits to capital markets but don’t report profits to tax authorities, an increasingly common outcome, wouldn’t share in the benefits. In the process, comparisons between the income reported to capital markets and tax authorities would become much more transparent...
While this proposal is laudable, Bush’s dividend tax plan opens the door to a more fundamental reconsideration of corporate reporting: Should corporations be allowed to report their income in two distinct ways to investors and to tax authorities? Several countries other than the U.S. enforce so-called “book-tax conformity” to varying degrees so that results are reported uniformly to these two audiences. Recent trends suggest that now is an opportune time for the U.S. to revisit the rules that allow firms to describe their economic activity in different ways to these...
...This ring-fence approach, isolating suspected victims and painstakingly retracing their steps in the days before they fell ill, "showed us that infection control works," says Dr. Balaji Sadasivan, Singapore's Minister of State for Health and the Environment. It paid another dividend: authorities got an early warning that most victims were getting sick after visiting hospitals with known SARS patients. "The moment we realized hospitals were the most dangerous place, we designated Tan Tock Seng [Hospital] as a SARS-only hospital and shut it down to all other patients," says Sadasivan...
...over the rest of the decade, when American economic prospects will be a lot rosier. Economic stimulus is supposed to be temporary. But it looks like the United States will have to endure a package of permanent measures: accelerating the implementation of the 2001 tax cut and slashing the dividend tax. As a result, any stimulus will not only be too late to do any good, it will actually fuel inflation and push up interest rates...
SAFE HAVENS Dividend-paying stocks like drugmakers Merck and Schering-Plough and utilities (Consolidated Edison, Southern Co.) should do well as investors tiptoe back into the safest stocks they can think of. Consider a yield-oriented stock fund like T. Rowe Price Capital Appreciation, which recently yielded 2% and gained 11% annually the past three years. If things go poorly for the U.S. in Iraq or elsewhere, this at least will provide some cushion and keep you in the game...