Investment taxation and portfolio performance
By: Daniel Bergstresser, Jeffrey Pontiff
Contributors: Pontiff, Jeffrey; Harvard Business School
Series: Working paper / Harvard Business School -- 10-084; Working paper (Harvard Business School) -- 10-084.
Publisher: Harvard Business School
Published: 2010
Place of publication: [Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 30
Description: Taxes have a first-order impact on portfolio returns. Most research mistakenly assumes that portfolios command similar tax burdens, or that tax burdens are proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization. We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2007 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and broker-dealers would have generated on a set of benchmark portfolios. For an individual at the 99th income percentile, the effective tax rates on SMB and HML, respectively, are 7 and 15 times greater than the tax rate on the market premium.
Notes: "March 2010"--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.