RE:re.bigbear4511
Dividends are not tax deductable to the corporation.
Corporations may not legally deduct the dividend payments before taxes but there is another approach - a corporate structure called an
income trust. Income trusts allow a firm to deduct dividends, or trust payments, before
taxes are calculated. The essence of an income trust is to pay all of the earnings after all business expenses to the unit holders, which are the owners of the income trust.
This is why Harper killed income trusts...