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Recent dividend dates and rates
Dividend
declaration
date | Dividend
record
date | Dividend
payment
date | Dividend
rate per
share | Record
date U.S.
exch. rate | Investment
date | Average
market
price | U.S. share
purchase
exchange rate | | Oct. 29/09 | Dec. 4/09 | Jan. 1/10 | $0.10 | 0.9508414 | Jan. 4/10 | $40.2518 | 1.0593 | | Jul. 30/09 | Sep. 4/09 | Oct. 1/09 | $0.10 | 0.9183579 | Oct. 2/09 | $41.1297 | 1.0408 | | Apr. 29/09 | Jun. 4/09 | Jul. 1/09 | $0.10 | 0.9091735 | Jul. 2/09 | $44.2449 | 1.1079 | | Jan. 29/09 | Mar. 2/09 | Apr. 1/09 | $0.10 | 0.7757951 | Apr. 2/09 | $44.5529 | 1.2724 |
Direct deposit of dividends
Shareholders may elect to have their dividends deposited directly into accounts held at financial institutions in Canada that provide electronic funds-transfer services. Please call the CIBC Mellon Answerline at 1-800-387-0825 to have your dividends directly deposited to your account.
Dividends paid in U.S. funds
Shareholders may also elect to have their dividends paid in U.S. funds and can contact our transfer agent CIBC Mellon directly to complete this request.
Eligible dividend
For 2006 and subsequent years, all dividends paid by Imperial Oil Limited are eligible dividends for Canadian federal income tax purposes.
Information for security holders outside Canada
Cash dividends paid to shareholders resident in countries with which Canada has an income tax convention are usually subject to a Canadian nonresident withholding tax of 15 percent.
The withholding tax is reduced to five percent on dividends paid to a corporation resident in the United States that owns at least 10 percent of the voting shares of Imperial.
Imperial Oil Limited is a qualified foreign corporation for purposes of the new reduced U.S. capital gains tax rates (15 percent and five percent for certain individuals) which are applicable to dividends paid by U.S. domestic corporations and qualified foreign corporations.
There is no Canadian tax on gains from selling shares or debt instruments owned by nonresidents not carrying on business in Canada.
Valuation day price
For capital gains purposes, Imperial's common shares were quoted at $3.50 a share on December 22, 1971 and $5.10 on February 22, 1994. Both amounts are restated for both the 1998 and the 2006 three-for-one share splits.
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