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Understanding the Dividends Received Deduction

Corporate Income Tax Expertise from BNA Software

The dividends received deduction (DRD) allows certain corporations to exclude some or all of their dividend income. It is a well-known disadvantage of operating as a C corporation that when it is profitable, its earnings are taxed, and then, if it makes distributions to its shareholders, those same earnings are usually taxed a second time.

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