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  • adjective Not franked.

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  • Under Australian law, a capital return or gain is more advantageous for shareholders who have held the stock for at least 12 months than an alternative "unfranked dividend"—a dividend paid to shareholders that doesn't include a credit for corporate tax already paid by a company on its profits—as it reduces the tax burden on what they get by 50%.

    SABMiller Hit by Tax Ruling on Foster's David Fickling 2011

  • -- As for me, some twelve or thirteen New Religions, heavy Packets, most of them unfranked, having arrived here from various parts of the world, in a space of six calendar months, I have instructed my invaluable friend the Stamped Postman to introduce no more of them, if the charge exceed one penny.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Religions, heavy Packets, most of them unfranked, having arrived here from various parts of the world, in a space of six calendar months, I have instructed my invaluable friend the Stamped Postman to introduce no more of them, if the charge exceed one penny.

    Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • Macquarie declared an unfranked dividend of 65 cents per share, down 24 per cent on the same period last year.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Acrux paid an unfranked special dividend of 60 cents per share in April.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The company declared a final, unfranked, dividend of 9.5 cents per share, one cent higher than a year earlier.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • The Melbourne-based company increased its interim, unfranked, dividend by one cent to 15 cents.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • The surplus capital led the board to declare a higher than expected final dividend of $1 per share in line with last year, which took the total dividend to $1.86, unfranked.

    The Australian | News | 2011

  • The Melbourne-based company increased its interim, unfranked, dividend by one cent to 15 cents.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2012

  • Acrux paid an unfranked special dividend of 60 cents per share in April.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

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