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...Billie also shared his wealth with tribe members, who last year received individual dividend checks of $36,000 from casino profits. And he took care of other Seminole leaders. Under his reign, each councilman had a discretionary fund of at least $5 million; Billie's was $15 million. More was available if needed, and it often was. One councilman ran through $57 million in less than four years...
That could change as early as next year. Lawmakers appear eager to reduce or eliminate the tax on dividends from common stock, and they may do the same for dividends from convertible and traditional preferred stock as well--though not for dividends from the new breed of fully taxable preferred. That prospect is driving up the prices of dividend-paying stocks...
When East Timor formally celebrated its independence in May, it closed the chapter on four centuries of stern Portuguese colonization and 24 years of brutal Indonesian occupation. The mood was finally one of hope for the future, of anticipation of a peace dividend. Some commentators even spoke of the fledgling country as a template for nation building in Afghanistan...
...spades. In June, in an apparent power struggle with its former Indonesian partner, a local unit of Canadian insurer Manulife Financial Corp. was declared bankrupt by a domestic court despite the fact that the operation was solvent and profitable. The inexplicable decision, made because Manulife didn't pay a dividend to shareholders in 1999, was later overturned, but not before the case received international publicity. Partly due to the experiences of companies like Manulife and Caltex, investment in some key sectors has effectively dried up. In mining, an important source of exports, many smaller foreign companies have fled...
...special withholding tax on savings to pay for reunification, sparking an exodus of billions of marks to neighboring Luxembourg. Tax evasion is not a criminal offense in Switzerland, and the Swiss say they have good systems for preventing it at home: they levy a hefty 35% withholding tax on dividend and interest income for their own citizens...