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Share Buybacks on the Rise: Understanding Their Use

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The Cost-Effectiveness of a Buyback

On a net basis, it's still sort of cheaper in total for the company to pay the 1% tax on the buyback and do that, rather than pay it out as a dividend. So there might be sort of a weird perverse incentive for theCompany to say we don't want to pay the tax, we'll make the shareholders pay the tax by giving them a dividend. I think that's the right way to look at it. Okay. Well, John, thanks very much for joining me. Always enjoy having your conversations. Back again with another episode sometime soon.

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