[hnfong]

Agreed. As a non-US tax resident, this factors a lot into whether a buy a stock or not. The 30% flat dividend tax rate pushes a lot of potentially enticing stocks to a bad buy for value.

I wonder whether this sentiment also contributed to the meme stocks popularity, since outside the US nobody really buys US stock with high dividends and are pushed to speculate on volatile stocks ala "stonks go up"..