Ex-dividend Returns and the Tax Reform Act of 1986

Mazhar A Siddiqi

The Financial Review, 1997, vol. 32, issue 1, 71-86

Abstract: As previously recognized, the Tax Reform Act of 1986 reduced observed ex-day returns to stocks that do not attract dividend capture trading. However, by decreasing the top corporate tax rate, and decreasing the corporate dividend income deduction, the Act also reduced the return to dividend capture by U.S. corporations. The ex-day returns for stocks that had previously attracted corporate dividend capture should therefore increase. This prediction is consistent with evidence that ex-day returns increased after the Act was implemented, among low-transaction cost, high-dividend yield stocks and among low-risk, high-dividend yield stocks. Copyright 1997 by MIT Press.

Date: 1997
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