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A corporation has a tax rate of 36%. If the corporation’s shareholders are taxed at a rate of 40% on dividend income, what is the effective tax rate on this corporation’s income, considering the taxation at both the corporate and the individual levels?
| Effective tax rate for corporation is nothing but the tax paid on profits arrived before paying any tax | ||||||||||
| Effective tax rate | = | Amount of tax paid / Total income earned (before paying any tax) | ||||||||
| Corporation tax rate | = | 36% | ||||||||
| Individual tax rate | = | 40% | ||||||||
| For example | ||||||||||
| Assume that the corporation eared the Pre-tax income of 1000 | ||||||||||
| and distributed the dividend to its shareholders 10% of its pre-tax income | ||||||||||
| That is, Divinded = 1000*10% = 100 | ||||||||||
| Amount of tax that paid by corporation = [1000-100(dividned)]900*36% | = | 360 | ||||||||
| Amount of tax paid by Individual on dividned income = 100*40% | = | 40 | ||||||||
| Total tax paid | 400 | |||||||||
| Total pre-tax income | 1000 | |||||||||
| Effective tax rate | 400/1000 | 40% | # | |||||||
| # the effective tax rate varies based on the dividend income distributed by the company to its shareholders |