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Bertille Bayart: "And here comes the dividend controversy!"

2020-03-31T19:45:32.054Z


CASE COMMENT - The government has announced that it will not provide public assistance to large companies that would otherwise pay dividends. Signing the return of a great classic of the economic debate.


We thought we knew it by heart, knowing it on the tips of our fingers and being able to recite it like our catechism. The controversy over dividends from listed companies is a classic of the economic debate, which has become boring by being seasonal like a flu. Annual game, worn out arguments. Sharing value for risk, bad shareholders versus good employees, short-term greed or long-term investment, explosion of inequality and efficiency of the market economy. Yes, really, we know.

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And then there is this controversy again, two months ahead of its usual budding (usually at the end of May, at the time of the balance sheet of general shareholders' meetings). Here it is again, and this time it is relevant.

The government has called on business to be moderate and accountable. And he announced that he would not grant public aid (deferral of tax and social charges, benefit of the State guarantee on the new

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Source: lefigaro

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