High Yield Canadian Income Trusts

Many Canadian companies are organized as income trusts. Canada has huge reserves of natural gas and oil, vast amounts of timber and rich deposits of industrial and precious metals. Rising oil prices have boosted profits and cash flows for the country's many oil producers. Under the present law, Canadian companies avoid corporate taxation provided they pass their profit directly to shareholders. As a result, the trusts are incentivized to pay out large distributions.

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