http://www.tickerhound.com/feed/user/KenLong/asked/feed.rss TickerHound.com Question Feed - user: KenLong's asked questions en-us contact@tickerhound.com Copyright 2009 http://www.tickerhound.com/questions/detail/200801137eee5e/can-a-one-time-special-dividend-by-qualified-for-tax-purposes http://www.tickerhound.com/questions/detail/200801137eee5e/can-a-one-time-special-dividend-by-qualified-for-tax-purposes When a company offers a one time special dividend can it be qualified for tax purposes? When companys post one time dividends of 25% or greater their share price is reduced on the dividend date to reflect this pay out. Can an investor qualify this dividend by holding the companys stock for the required period (two months, I believe), and then pay taxes on the dividend while taking the short term capital gains loss? If so this would result in a much lower tax rate than paying taxes on all those short term capital gains and result in an automatic profit to the strategy. To compensate for the holding time and risk to capital, one could simply sell deep in the money call options on the underlying stock. This would put a portion of the capital back into play, and protect against a fall in the stocks price, as well as offering a small amount of income and quaranteeing an exit price and date. Ken Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:24:45 -0500 http://www.tickerhound.com/questions/detail/200801132e8d3b/is-the-managment-controling-the-questions-on-certain-services http://www.tickerhound.com/questions/detail/200801132e8d3b/is-the-managment-controling-the-questions-on-certain-services There was a question on Chris Rowe's trading course CRISS, that I linked to by following certain peoples names from the top tickerhounds listing. But after crafting a response I find that the question is no longer answerable and seems to have been removed from the question bank!! What is going on Mr Mulligan? Are you playing games with your cohorts over at Tycoon Publishing? If we can ask and answer questions about other peoples services, why not theirs? The question was originally posted under Financial Analysis 2 weeks ago, but is not there or here now. <a target="_NEW" href="http://www.tickerhound.com/questions/detail/2008014f977f7">http://www.tickerhound.com/questions/detail/2008014f977f7</a> Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:43:43 -0500