The company has also never declared dividends since going public.
But companies declaring dividends now are not saying what their tax status would be under the new law.
To declare a final dividend of 1.0p per ordinary share.
The company declared dividends worth 360 million, double the amount paid out in 1990.
Every year company declares a dividend of around 20 per cent.
I mean, if they'd declared a $60 million dividend, everybody wouldn't have thought the world was going to hell.
He then instructed the company to declare a dividend on the shares.
If Ford were a normal company, it would simply declare a special dividend or buy back a lot of shares.
Last year, Lilco declared dividends of $1.76 a common share, or about $197.2 million.
The profit would not be for us: the state can't declare dividends.