Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) put a bill before Congress on April 1, 2009, pertaining to carbon reductions and including the cap and dividend system.
The combination of large cash holdings with stocks paying above average dividends with some other non-correlating assets created low Beta portfolios with market-beating Sharpe ratios.
An increase to the DTC was announced in the fall of 2005 by Liberal finance minister Ralph Goodale just prior to the fall of the Liberal minority government, in conjunction with the announcement that Canadian income trusts would not become subject to dividend taxation as had been feared.
Inspired by the Fee and dividend structure Republican Congressman Bob Inglis introduced a H.R. 2380 on May 13, 2009 in the U.S. House of Representatives called the 'Raise Wages, Cut Carbon Act of 2009'.
Flat tax plans that are presently being advanced in the United States also seek to redefine "sources of income"; current progressive taxes count interest, dividends and capital gains as income, for example, while Steve Forbes's variant of the flat tax would apply to wages only.
US Airways allowed donations of mileage earned on Dividend miles.
70% of Juvenile Law Center's revenue comes from foundations, 14%-16% from individuals, corporations, and United Way designated gifts, and the remainder from trainings, publications, speaking events, awards, and dividend investments.
“You will need 8 more DB2 MSUs for your z900 to handle this year’s Christmas sales rush. Since your current z900 configuration doesn’t have enough capacity to add 8 DB2 MSUs, you need to add another engine. It might be less expensive to upgrade to a z9 because of the double technology dividend.”
The social dividend is a key feature of many models for market socialism, and has been proposed by Oskar Lange, Abba Lerner, James Meade and more recently by the economists James Yunker and John Roemer.
Another income tax statute in 1894 was overturned in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. in 1895, where the Supreme Court held that income taxes on income from property, such as rent income, interest income, and dividend income (but not income taxes on income from wages, employment, etc.) were to be treated as direct taxes.