Post #308 by weatherman on the Brookfield Corporation board

Stocks A to Z / Stocks B / Brookfield Corporation (BN)

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useful insight !

my understanding for the u.s. investor :
- as usual, dividends from BN will be taxed each year at a lower rate than capital GAINS; given one can utilize the foreign tax credit and the person is in a typical tax bracket.

- return OF capital lowers the cost basis until the stake in BNRE is only capital gains (or losses!) whenever sold. so this is a time deferral, but not guaranteed rate deferral (which of course are linked anyway).
so if BNRE does well and is never traded, could be great for taxes.

bottom line : possibly not worth the complexity and risk of future manipulations experienced by many brookfield subs.

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