Question: Will a Dividend tax hike lower value on my stocks that I invested in?

Will paying 40% on Dividend hurt my dividend income ?

Answer:

If you are talking about a government tax on dividends, that would not affect the value of your particular stocks, since this tax would be applicable to dividends of all companies. However, after paying the tax you would have less disposable income.

Of course it will. Not only that, a tax hike on dividends will make stocks with dividends undesirable, and will reduce the overall value of these stocks...

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