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schema:articleBody	Samsung Electronics on Thursday announced plans for a huge one-off dividend payment for shareholders with its controlling family facing a multi-billion-dollar inheritance tax bill. Chairman Lee Kun-hee, the richest man in South Korea, left his children a monumental fortune when he died in October, along with a tax tab reported to be more than $10 billion. The group's flagship subsidiary Samsung Electronics said it would give a "one-time special cash dividend" to shareholders on top of the regular payment -- and more than four times higher -- as part of its full-year results. It also announced a new increased three-year shareholder return programme. Analysts say the plan will help the Samsung heirs -- including Samsung Electronics vice-chairman and de facto leader Lee Jae-yong -- pay the gargantuan tax bill. Under South Korean law, Lee Kun-hee's estate is taxed at 50 percent -- plus a 20 percent surcharge on stocks he held as the largest shareholder in a firm. Reports have estimated that around 11.4 trillion won ($10.2 billion) in inheritance taxes will be due on the late patriarch's stock assets alone. "Samsung C&T is one of the biggest shareholders of Samsung Electronics and Lee Jae-yong is the biggest shareholder of Samsung C&T," said Kim Dae-jong, a business professor at Sejong University. "Around 2,000 won per share is an astonishing amount and it will greatly ease the burden of inheritance tax," he added. Samsung reported a 26 percent jump in fourth quarter net profit from a year earlier, but warned of ongoing uncertainties over the pandemic, and lower profits in the first quarter of 2021 owing to falling prices. Lee Jae-yong is currently in prison after he was sentenced to two and a half years last week in a retrial over a sprawling corruption scandal, a ruling that analysts say could complicate the decision-making process for the world's biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. sh/slb/dan
schema:headline	Samsung boosts dividends as family faces giant tax bill
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