To consider and approve the financial results for the period ended......

This paper presents statutory tax rates on several forms of capital income, including dividends, interest on bonds and bank accounts, and capital gains on shares and real property, including integration between the corporate and personal levels. It updates the rates from an earlier tax working paper and extends the analysis to consider the debt-equity bias of the tax system when the personal level of taxation is considered.

The paper argues that interest rates are at extremely low levels to support banks, and the search for yield has pushed the liquidity driven speculative bubble from real estate, derivatives and structured products markets into the corporate debt market. Equities have rallied strongly too. This asset cycle is certainly helping banks reduce hidden losses on illiquid securities and could also help reduce the cost of equity.

Inequality measures in Lithuania (like in Estonia and Latvia) are high. To an important extent this is related to the high risk of poverty for non-working individuals and to the low rewards to work. Therefore, increasing the quality of jobs, ensuring that the most vulnerable have access to employment and providing adequate income support for those that have lost their job are key for making labour markets and the economy more inclusive.

Widespread increases in inequality over the past three decades have raised the question of the distribution of the growth dividends.

Widespread increases in inequality over the past three decades have raised the question of the distribution of the growth dividends.

A payout passed leaves a scar on a company’s record that can never be erased 

Chief of French state-backed company said decision was made with ‘heavy heart’

UK telecoms group warns shareholders over lower payouts in future as it focuses on broadband network upgrade

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Group seeks to ‘protect capital structure’ as uncertainty swirls over Covid-19 impact

First signs of severity of coronavirus pandemic on UK energy sector 

Grounding of aircraft around the world due to coronavirus crisis takes toll on UK aero-engine maker

Aircraft maker’s chief executive says focus will be on rebuilding balance sheet post-pandemic

Frantic trading across financial markets pushes revenues up at the exchange and financial data group

Oil price collapse triggered by coronavirus pandemic almost halves Anglo-Dutch group’s earnings

Supermajors’ status as reliable income stocks questioned as earnings plunge

Chief executive Thomas Buberl says different guidance between countries ‘difficult to accept’

UK insurers bow to regulatory pressure but L&G has said it would push ahead with payout

Cancelling payouts should not become a loyalty test

Almost half of British companies have scrapped payouts in response to coronavirus

Insurers have been urged by regulators to reconsider shareholder payments during lockdown

£3.5bn worth of dividend payments cancelled this week 

Industry regulator calls for vigilance over actions of employers during pandemic

Companies have option to unshackle themselves from expensive payouts

French energy group makes emissions pledge as first-quarter profits drop 35%

Cuts are painful for investors, but don’t write off investment trusts just yet 

Investors braced for years of lower payouts by some of the most reliable dividend-paying stocks

SIR CLIVE WOODWARD: I am a glass half-full person and 11 months out from the final stages of the World Cup there was a lot to like in that England performance.

Logical thinking is one of the first casualties in situations of great stress, which must be the explanation for the way dividends are being demonised in the pandemic.

Some HSBC directors are said to be furious at the Bank of England for forcing it to cancel its dividend and suggested the bank should move its headquarters from London to Hong Kong.

Standard Life Aberdeen, MoneySupermarket and warehouse group Segro yesterday also kept their dividends intact. But they are vastly outnumbered by those cancelling the largesse.

The supermarket's latest preliminary results cover the year to 29 February and do not cover the spell of mass panic buying in the last few weeks.

The group also said it had donated vast quantities of alcohol to help make over 8million bottles of hand sanitiser for healthcare workers globally.

Food sales in the peak week to March 21 jumped by 48 per cent. But the supermarket's general merchandise and clothing business, part of which operates through Argos, has suffered.

The former state monopoly decided to cancel its final payout to investors last month, to help bolster the balance sheet.

Chief exec Alan Jope said he expects the pandemic to prompt lasting changes in behaviour, with strong demand for cleaning products set to continue while the dining industry could face a slow recovery.

The education group will hand back £102m to shareholders - or 13.5p per share - after boss John Fallon insisted the company was in a 'strong financial position'.

Many had been worried BP would have to cut or axe the payout after oil prices began tanking in late January. But the energy giant has raised the amount it will give to shareholders.

Shareholders are to receive around a two-thirds cut in their dividend payments covering the last three months of 2019, from 47 cents per share to 16 cents.

Last year Shell was the most generous dividend payer in the UK, handing pension funds and investors £11.6bn.That amounted to 15.5 per cent of all payments made by FTSE 100 firms.

More than 300 listed companies have cut or cancelled payouts as they battle to survive. It is now feared that total dividend payments will fall from £98.5 billion last year to just £47.2 billion this year.

Chief executive Philip Jansen, who recently recovered from Covid-19, said a new target of full fibre to 20 million homes by the mid to late 2020s is now in place.

Does it really make sense for pensioners who, directly or indirectly, rely on their income from dividends to have those incomes further cut by Bank of England diktat?

Chief exec Philip Jansen (pictured) said the company now aims to offer fibre to 4.5m homes and businesses by next March and 20m by the mid to late-2020s, up from a previous target of 15m..

Sections of the investment community have been campaigning for years for companies to incorporate environmental, social and governance criteria into the way they do business.

The oil giant faces mounting pressure to sell its stake in Russian energy giant Rosneft as it embarks on a major strategy overhaul to prop up its dividend payouts.

Royal Mail is facing a pivotal year. Boss Rico Back is trying to roll out modern technology and shift its business model towards parcels, as the number of letters being sent continues to decline.

If ever there was a time when investors needed a hero, it's now. And among the stock market capitulation, a ray of light has arrived with the latest list of Dividend Heroes.

Dividend cuts are an inevitable consequence of the economy - both here and worldwide - sliding into recession in the coming months.