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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but if I pull a dividend I don't pay tax initially, but when I do my income taxes it's part of my income and I'd have to pay tax on it then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Careful with that. If you're not making estimated tax payments on your dividends (or other capital gains) every quarter or increasing your withholdings from wages to compensate, and you owe too much at the end of the year, you can get hit with penalties and interest.

For most people the quarterly dividends in their brokerage aren't enough to trigger that, but as your savings grows and quarterly dividends become significant they might.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Where I'm from, we don't do that. All dividends come with an "imputation credit," which basically says "this money's already been taxed."