Subject: Re: look what I found, brk partners
If Brk paid a 100$$ Div I would sell and pay the cap gains tax prior to the ex date.

Likewise : )
For some, it would be much preferable to seeing the firm institute an ongoing dividend plan.

In case anyone is interested, deep in the money call options on dividend paying stocks don't get a dividend but are still assessed dividend withholding tax for ex-US persons.

It used to be that wealth management banks would let you do a "total return swap" for an individual name, a custom futures contract tracking the stock+dividend value, but that has become nigh impossible without being at the level of a hedge fund. CFD's are perhaps an alternative, but I think you lose a lot on implied interest.

Jim