romanvas schreef op 11 februari 2022 13:36:
We already had a similar discussion one year ago about obligation to pay dividend. My question was:
romanvas wrote on Feb 10, 2021 10:21 PM :
I have only one doubt from annual report and Q&A section after press conference. If URW management believes that there will be no obligation to pay dividends in year 2021 and 2022, that means that deprecations will be higher than net income for this and next years. That basically means that further 4Bn deprecation is expected at least till the end of 2022.
So that means that assets are still overvalued though it was said that they see a current book value as realistic. This causes a small mistrust in what they say (probably they are uncertain themselves about the future in fact).
And the answer was
mercury-adept February 10, 2021 23:06
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has set out the guidelines for the 90% rule for REITs:
“To qualify as a REIT, a company must have the bulk of its assets and income connected to real estate investment and must distribute at least 90% of its taxable income to shareholders annually in the form of dividends.”
But Taxable income is not based on Earnings
One of the most important rules within the context of REITs is depreciation, which is included in the income statement as a cost of doing business even though it doesn’t affect a company’s cash.
A REIT may reduce its net taxable income in several ways, some of which have been made more favorable for taxpayers by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), on March 27, 2020. A REIT can carry forward post-2017 net operating losses (NOLs) indefinitely, to reduce up to 100% of the REIT's net taxable income in 2018 through 2020 and up to 80% of the REIT's net taxable income in 2021 and later. A REIT can carry forward pre-2018 NOLs for up to 20 years, to reduce up to 100% of the REIT's net taxable income