Britain’s biggest companies handed out almost half a trillion pounds in dividends and share buybacks in the years before the coronavirus crisis struck, according to a report warning that the scale of the payouts has undermined their resilience.
How much paid out in wages?
Dividends, giving the profits to the pension funds that own companies, are on the whole a good thing, no? Stock buybacks are always up for debate. Big difference. Shareholders are the pension-retirement-savings funds of the public. Cmmonwealth RJPartington InvAssoc AICPRESS
TESCOW Tax break - nipples - enjoy the dividend (for you dear customer, drink the plain milk...)
I'm just wondering if they included the 9,000 richest people who last year gained £34,000,000,000 in capital gains Newsnight
Bastards. Their time's up