Dividend Investing

Canadian Dividends and the Dividend Tax Credit

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The following post is written by Brian So, an insurance advisor and blogger at briansoinsurance.com. While my previous posts focused on the impact of withholding tax on dividends paid from the US and foreign companies, I realize that most people have a high concentration of their portfolio in the Canadian market. Therefore, to wrap up my mini-series on dividends, the last topic will be on dividends paid by Canadian companies. Don’t worry, there won’t be any complex withholding tax rules discussed in this post. Dividends are payments made by corporations to their shareholders. Because dividends are paid out of after-tax …

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In What Account Should Canadians Hold International (Non U.S.) Dividend Stocks?

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The following post is written by Brian So, an insurance advisor and blogger at briansoinsurance.com. Since my last post generated a lot of interesting discussions on which account to hold US stocks and ETFs, I’ll follow it up with a post on the impact of withholding taxes of holding (non-US) international dividend stocks in different accounts. Canada does not just have tax treaties with the US with respect to dividends paid to Canadians from US stocks. We also have tax treaties with 89 other countries in force and treaties signed but not in force with about a dozen other countries. …

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Do You Have a Plan?

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Do You Know the Future? Another year has nearly passed us by, with all kinds of changes and shifts in global markets. That is certainly nothing new when it comes to investing. Going forward there looks to be more uncertainty to follow, much of which will hinge on the resolution to the Fiscal Cliff in Washington. Of course, it’s the surprise events that no one sees coming that take the biggest hit to investors. The Financial Crisis of 2008 and 2009 is an obvious example. This year the sudden slow-down in China hit oil and gas producers as well as …

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Dividend Growth: Freedom Through Passive Income

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[easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B009CXTH5K” cloaking=”default” height=”auto” localization=”default” locale=”CA” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41piNgpg56L.jpg” tag=”divninjaca-20″ width=”250″]During the Financial Bloggers Conference (FinCon12), Mike from the Dividend Guy was super-excited to let me know he just launched his new eBook, [easyazon_link asin=”B009CXTH5K” locale=”CA” new_window=”default” nofollow=”default” tag=”divninjaca-20″ add_to_cart=”default” cloaking=”default” localization=”default” popups=”default”]Dividend Growth: Freedom Through Passive Income[/easyazon_link]. This eBook is available through Amazon Kindle, with both a [easyazon_link asin=”B009CXTH5K” locale=”CA” new_window=”default” nofollow=”default” tag=”divninjaca-20″ add_to_cart=”default” cloaking=”default” localization=”default” popups=”default”]Canadian Edition[/easyazon_link], and a [easyazon_link asin=”B009CXT8AY” locale=”CA” new_window=”default” nofollow=”default” tag=”divninjaca-20″ add_to_cart=”default” cloaking=”default” localization=”default” popups=”default”]U.S. Edition[/easyazon_link]. I plan a review for the future, but for now I just wanted to get the …

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