Company: RTNTF
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001628280-25-006642
Chunk: 304

Company: RIO TINTO LTD
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 20-F
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| Previous year special - paid during theyear |            – |            – |         62.0 |
| Interim - paid during theyear               |        177.0 |        177.0 |        267.0 |
| Total paid during theyear                   |        435.0 |        402.0 |        746.0 |

The franking credits available to the Group as at 31 December 2024 , after allowing for Australian tax payable in respect of the current and prior

reporting period’s profit, are estimated to be US$ 9,177million ( 2023 : US$ 8,734million ; 2022 : US$ 7,246million ).

The proposed Rio Tinto Limited dividend will be fully franked based on a tax rate of 30% , and reduce the franking account balance by US$ 358

million .

Reconciliation of dividend declared to dividend paid

|                                                          | 2024US$m | 2023US$m | 2022US$m |
| Rio Tinto plc previous year final dividend payable       |    3,185 |    2,875 |    5,024 |
| Rio Tinto plc previous year special dividend payable     |        – |        – |      747 |
| Rio Tinto plc interim dividend payable                   |    2,238 |    2,147 |    3,162 |
| Rio Tinto Limited previous year final dividend payable   |      936 |      815 |    1,597 |
| Rio Tinto Limited previous year special dividend payable |        – |        – |      237 |
| Rio Tinto Limited interim dividend payable               |      666 |      629 |      949 |
| Dividends payable during the year                        |    7,025 |    6,466 |   11,716 |
| Net movement of unclaimed dividends in the year          |        – |        4 |       11 |
| Dividends paid during the year(a)                        |    7,025 |    6,470 |   11,727 |

(a) Until April 2024. we economically hedged the dividend cash flows from the announcement date to the payment date in order to reduce our foreign exchange exposure on these cash flows.

Following our policy change to declare dividends in US dollars, the period of currency exposure has shortened to the period from the date of final rein