So if you earn Dividends, you get a Tax Thingy in the mail indicating you earned that money for that year. So it would be logical to take that money and do something with it, like pay taxes, right?, not just leave it there.

I eat the taxes, and reinvest the dividends. Every Dividend at current levels buys me over 1/8th of a share.
I've collected several shares since they started doing dividends again, and that share brings in more dividends, etc.

Edit: I actually just added them up... my dividends have bought me 11.3 more shares of AAPL since 2012.
So, no, taking the money and running is not always the best plan.

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1/8??? So for each share you get what???

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1/8??? So for each share you get what???

I think he's saying that he regularly (quarterly?) gets dividend checks for around 1/8*250 or around $35.

Apple is currently paying $3.08 annually in dividends, per share. You can do the math.

Not bad.

....what about.....'Father's Little Dividend'......????

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1/8??? So for each share you get what???

I think he's saying that he regularly (quarterly?) gets dividend checks for around 1/8*250 or around $35.

Apple is currently paying $3.08 annually in dividends, per share. You can do the math.

Not bad.

Correct... 1.16% annual yield. Per share.
It adds up! But not as fast if you don't reinvest.

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I reinvest my dividends with AAPL, too. I used to add however much extra cash was needed in my account after the dividend pay out, so that I could afford full shares, but then realized that TD Ameritrade offers DRIP for AAPL, and now when I get my dividend, they buy whatever amount (including fractional shares) of AAPL my dividend can afford. Now I don't get stuck with any leftover cash sitting in the account. In fact, they just sent me a check for sixty-three cents, which is how much I had in the cash account, so now it's at a zero balance.

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I'm reinvesting and getting a little more than 1 share per quarter. If I'd never sold any of my shares I'd be....living on my yacht writing this connected to the interwebs via my private geosynchronous comsat.

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I look at dividends as found money so I always reinvest. Our retirement fund automatically reinvests, of course. Why shouldn’t I?

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.....keep those statements....whenever you cash in the stock, you will need to have the cost basis to determine capital gains......and with dividend investments, you need to be extra diligent.......

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.....keep those statements....whenever you cash in the stock, you will need to have the cost basis to determine capital gains......and with dividend investments, you need to be extra diligent.......

The brokerage does that automatically.

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......if you get email statements, you need to print out.....I think some only keep online copies for a certain # of years......

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So am I paying taxes on the $900+ dollars in my account as dividends?

And if so, does it matter what I do with the dividends? All this talk about what to do with it, but no one answering the question about taxes.

Do you pay taxes if you reinvest the dividends?

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So am I paying taxes on the $900+ dollars in my account as dividends?

And if so, does it matter what I do with the dividends? All this talk about what to do with it, but no one answering the question about taxes.

Do you pay taxes if you reinvest the dividends?

For Federal Income Tax, your dividends are taxed as capital gains, regardless of if they are reinvested.
So, though I did intimate that they are taxed, the short, clear version is "Yes, they are taxed as capital gains".
At least, that's what I remember from when I did my taxes back in February... I use tax software that figures that stuff out. I just enter the transactions (the dividend amounts from my 1099 from my brokerage).

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.....you still pay taxes.....the minute they give it to you......that is dividend income.....even if you reinvest.......

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I'm reinvesting and getting a little more than 1 share per quarter. If I'd never sold any of my shares I'd be....living on my yacht writing this connected to the interwebs via my private geosynchronous comsat.

lol!

The 1000 shares I bought in 1997 for around $13/share would be worth over $7MM and I would be taking in $80 large a year in dividends.

WOULD be. If I hadn't sold it at $60/share not too long after I bought it.