At some point in nearly every investor's life, they'll be alerted to the fact that they're collecting "qualified dividends." That inevitably prompts the natural question: What are qualified dividends ...

Learn how dividends and capital gains on stock sales can affect your tax bill, and how you can reduce what you pay. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising ...

Here’s something nobody tells you when you start investing: those dividend payments hitting your account aren’t all treated the same come tax time. I stumbled across this myself when reviewing my tax ...

Dividend investing has an obvious appeal for retirees as you build a portfolio of income-producing stocks, collect regular payments, and never have to sell shares to fund your lifestyle. This means ...

Reinvesting dividends means purchasing additional shares, which can complicate sales or tax-loss harvesting in taxable accounts. The IRS’ wash-sale rules prohibit claiming a tax loss after a sale if ...

A liquidating dividend is a distribution to shareholders during company liquidation, typically non-taxable because it returns part of the capital investment to shareholders.

I recently dug into the pros and cons of dividend reinvestment. Readers of the article sent me questions about other dividend-related topics. Here are some of the most common questions I got: What ...

I recently dug into the pros and cons of dividend reinvestment. Readers of the article sent me questions about other dividend-related topics. Here are some of the most common questions I got: ...