@techreport{NBERw0530, title = "Does the Investment Interest Limitation Explain the Existence of Dividends?", author = "Daniel R. Feenberg", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "530", year = "1982", month = "February", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w0530", abstract = {Miller and Scholes show that under certain conditions the Federal Income tax taxes dividend income at a rate no higher than the rate on capital gains. Tabulations of actual 1977 tax returns show that the special circumstances under which this can occur apply to less than 3% of dividend income and no significant role can be ascribed to their result in the determination of corporate dividend policy.}, }