ACCOUNTING,FINANCEtheamountof a company’sprofitthat has beenpaidasdividendstoshareholdersin aparticularperiod:Tax on thedistributedprofitwill be levied at 20%.(Definition ofdistributed profitfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdistributed profit
distributed profitIn order to compensate for the initial 28% taxation, only 72% of thedistributedprofitwill be taxable.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For them to be taxed on that as adistributedprofitseems to be a contradiction in terms.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0Conversely, supposing the stock were distributed and instead of putting the profit to reserve that were distributed, the charge would fall upon thedistributedprofit.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0The corporation tax was 45% on distributed profits and 20% on reinvested earnings.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.While downward adjustments to the level of distributed profits would have been another natural response, the booming stock markets of the 1990s largely prevented such an evolution.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/distributed-profit##
