I’ve been a tax payer in Ireland, Switzerland and the UK. Dividends are treated as income in all three. However, from some superficial googling, it seems thes

I’ve been a tax payer in Ireland, Switzerland and the UK. Dividends are treated as income in all three. However, from some superficial googling, it seems these 3 are not a particularly representative sample - without fully researching it, it looks like this approach to dividend income is not the way the majority do it although that doesn’t mean you save money by paying yourself dividends as the tax rates are often higher than income tax rates.